They are the official hosts at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh and the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville.

[2] 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,[3] 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.

[6] The following are lists of the first ladies of North Carolina during the Colonial period under British rule.

The following is a list of the wives of governors of the Roanoke Colony at Fort Raleigh.

[7] The last three provincial governors and their wives resided at Tryon Palace in New Bern.