First ladies and gentlemen of North Carolina

The spouse of the governor of North Carolina is given an honorary position, styled as First Lady or First Gentleman of the State of North Carolina. They are the official hosts at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh and the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville. To date, there has been one woman governor of the State of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, and therefore her husband, Bob Eaves, was the state's first and only first gentleman. Two of the state's first ladies were daughters, not wives, of governors: Helen Whitaker Fowle served as first lady during the administration of her widowed father, Governor Daniel Gould Fowle, and Angelia Lawrance Morrison served as first lady during the term of her widowed father, Governor Cameron A. Morrison, until his marriage to Sara Virginia Ecker Watts on April 2, 1924.

Mary P. Easley, wife of Governor Mike Easley, was the state's first Catholic and first Greek American first lady.

The current first lady is Anna Harris Stein, wife of Governor Josh Stein.