Ansley Herring Wegner, a native of Wilson, has worked in the North Carolina Office of Archives and History since 1994. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked in various jobs, including as a private investigator, before deciding to return to school. She earned a master’s degree in Public History from North Carolina State and began her career in the State Archives search room. Wegner transferred to Historical Research in 2000 and served as administrator of the Highway Historical Marker Program for many years. In 2025 she became the director of the nascent Division of Research and Publications, assuming management of America 250 NC. She is the author of three books, History for All the People: One Hundred Years of Public History in North Carolina, Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, and This Day in North Carolina History. She contributed to The Governors of North Carolina and William S. Powell’s Encyclopedia of North Carolina.