Loris Sutton serves as the Senior Deputy Secretary for Special Operations and Intelligence for the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, overseeing internal affairs, special operations, intelligence, investigations and emergency preparedness.
Since her start in 1993, she has served as a correctional officer, probation/parole officer, program director, chief of security, interim warden, director of operations, Central Region director and several other roles. Prior to the agency's inception, she served as the interim assistant commissioner of prisons.
Sutton is a graduate of Shaw University in Raleigh, where she received a bachelors in sociology, with a concentration in criminal justice. She is also a graduate of the Correctional Leadership Development Program and the Executive Leadership Development Program. She is a member of the American Correctional Association, Southern States Correctional Association and the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.