Contributed photo Sherry Leviner

Sherry Leviner, a resident of Hamlet, received a doctorate in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 10.

Leviner, a 1992 graduate of Richmond Senior High School, received a bachelor’s of science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996 and a master’s of science in nursing education from Duke University in 2008.

Leviner is the daughter of Shirley Crawford and the late Earl Leviner Jr. of Rockingham. She is currently employed at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.