Such awareness and devotion were evident in college, said Kristen Kuehnle, who chairs the department of criminal justice at SalemState University, where Collier graduated with honors in 2009 as a criminal justice major.
Burr, a native of the tobacco-rich metropolitan area of Winston-Salem, is a strong backer of the state's embattled tobacco industry and the thousands of North Carolina farmers whose livelihood has depended on it.