North Carolina has a long history of women in leadership positions and at the forefront of education. The women of North Carolina have been dedicated to the pursuit of equity in both leadership and education. This study provides in-depth experience of North Carolina Community College female presidents, understanding their involvement in being a mentor and being mentored. The North Carolina Community Colleges System has fourteen female community college presidents out of the 58 schools (Newhouse & Nichols, 2022). This qualitative narrative inquiry aims to understand how mentoring has shaped female presidents. The guiding theoretical framework is Kram's Theory of Mentoring and the Queen Bee Theory (Kram, 1985; Faniko et al., 2021). The design of the qualitative study is a narrative inquiry with five female presidents (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). A semi-structured interview was used to understand the female president's perspective on mentoring. The researcher collected the recorded data to transcribe and analyze. All names of institutions and people were changed to preserve anonymity. The information gathered from the interviews was synthesized for commonality using the lens of Kram's Theory of Mentoring (1985) and the Queen Bee Theory (Derks et al., 2011). The interviews found that the presidents followed the four steps of Kram's Theory of Mentoring: (1) Initiation, (2) Cultivation, (3) Separation, and (4) Redefinition while mentored. However, due to the lack of female representation in leadership, women turned to females outside the System, men, and peer-to-peer mentors. The findings suggest that it is vital for the North Carolina Community College System to provide women with opportunities to find female mentors outside of their institutions, create a statewide female-empowered mentoring program and dismantle gender bias wording like "female president." Future research suggests using a larger population of women in executive positions, such as vice presidents and chairs, to study their ascent into leadership and speak with women of color and a larger sample of generational women. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]