Attorney General Jeff Jackson honors Wilmington-area resident with Dogwood Award

RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) — Attorney General Jeff Jackson recognized Wilmington-area resident Roxann Lansdowne with the Attorney General’s Dogwood Award on Friday.

The Dogwood Award honors people who are working to improve the health, safety and well-being of North Carolinians.

Jackson highlighted Lansdowne’s work as executive director of Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, an organization that helped provide meals to communities in eastern North Carolina during a time when SNAP benefits were at risk of being cut.

“When the federal government threatened to cut SNAP benefits, 1.4 million North Carolinians had to prepare to put food on their tables without this critical assistance,” Jackson said. “The work that Roxann and her team at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard did to provide meals during this time was a lifeline for many folks in eastern North Carolina.”

For more than 35 years, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard has provided emergency food assistance to individuals and families in New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender counties.

In 2025, the Cupboard provided food for more than 76,000 people in the region.

Lansdowne says the recognition meant so much for the pantry.

“For the Attorney General’s office to recognize that food pantries play an important part in the cohesiveness of a community was unbelievably rewarding,” said Lansdowne.

She says this is a whole group effort and that she is proud of the “heart” that all of the volunteers bring to the pantry.