• President, Haywood County Arts Council
• President, Voices in the Laurel Youth Choir
• Director & President, Haywood 2000
• Director, Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation
• Director, Appalachian Music & Dance Preservation Society
• Director, Folkmoot USA
• Director, Western North Carolina Tomorrow
• Director, Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre (HART)
• Director, Friends of Mountain History
• Director, Advantage West, North Carolina
• Director, North Carolina Progress Board
• Director, Daniel Boone Council of Boy Scouts of America
• Member, Haywood Heritage Council
• Member, Appalachian Trail Conservancy

• Downtown Waynesville Association
• Haywood County Chamber of Commerce
• Wilderness Trail, Inc.
• Haywood Historic Society
• McDowell County Chamber of Commerce
• Leadership Giving Circle of United Way
• Friends of Scouting
• North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry

• Director of the Smoky Mountain Folk Festival for over 30 years
• Producer of the Summer Street Dances on Main Street, Waynesville
• Coordinator of the Haywood County Visioning Process as Haywood 2000 board member
• Campaign Chair, HRMC Fitness Center, raising over $3 Million
• Member and Paul Harris Fellow, Waynesville Rotary
• Scout Master, Troop 321, Waynesville
• Blue Ridge National Heritage Area participant and contributor

• Architect, AIA
• Other businesses include farming, property management

• Architect for HRMC Fitness Center, Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre, Maggie Valley Country Club and Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters in the East Haywood Industrial Park
• Designed the Composer in Residence building at the Brevard Music Center and The Nags Head Woods Nature Center for the North Carolina Nature Conservancy at the Outer Banks

Waynesville's HART Theatre, Joe Sam Queen, Architect

Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center, Joe Sam Queen, Campaign Chairman & Architect

Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters located near Beaverdam Industrial Park, Joe Sam Queen, Architect

Education

• Tuscola High School, Class of 1968
• North Carolina State University, Architecture, 1972
• North Carolina State University, Master in Architecture, 1974

• President of the Student Body; co-captain of the wrestling team, Tuscola High School
• President, Design Council, NCSU School of Design
• Member, NCSU Student Senate
• Teaching Fellow , North Carolina State University