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Hon. Kenn Gardner, FAIA

About

Architect, Author, former Chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, Storyteller.

Kenn authored an adventure novel entitled Blackbeard: The QAR Project. A search for the lost pirate’s treasure crisscrossing eastern North Carolina.

Today, Kenn is the treasure hunter, following clues to buried treasure, that gem of a story.

Kenn’s engaging style is filled with large doses of humor, facts, and analysis leaving audiences spellbound.

Biography

Kenn soloed an aircraft on his 16th birthday. He had to thumb-a-ride to the airport because he was too young to drive a car.

Soloing a airplane, but can’t drive?

Something about that bothered him. Clearly the government needed his help.

Today, Kenn is a recovering politician, having served two terms as a Wake County Commissioner, including Chairman 2003-2004.

In 2008, Kenn was honored as the National Elected Official of the Year, and is a recipient of North Carolina’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine.

A nationally recognized architect, Kenn has been elevated to the College of Fellows, (FAIA) by the American Institute of Architects.

Kenn resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife. They have three children, nine grandchildren, and a 1949 Studebaker pickup truck.