ENDORSEMENTS

COMMUNITY LEADERS

Dianne Chipps Bailey, Nonprofit Consultant

Jon Buchan, Attorney
Jennie Buckner
Ann Caulkins, Former President and Publisher of The Charlotte Observer
Edward G. "Woody" Connette, Attorney
Sandra Conway, Schoolanthropist

Dianne English, Executive Director, Community Building Initiative

James Ferguson, Civil Rights Attorney

Hilda H. Gurdian, Publisher, La Noticia

Susan B. Harden, UNCC Professor

Rob Harrington, Attorney

Hugh McColl Jr., Former CEO, Bank of America
Mary Newsom, Former Associate Editor,
The Charlotte Observer

Eileen Paroff, Precint 69 Chair
Susan Patterson, Former Program Director, The Knight Foundation (Charlotte)

Justin Perry, Perry Counseling Healing and Recovery 

Octavia Seawell, Civic Engagement Consultant

Anne Tompkins, Former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina
John "Buddy" Wester, Attorney

Elizabeth Winer, Trustee, Winer Family Foundation
Emily Zimmern, Former President, Levine Museum of the New South

ELECTED OFFICIALS

Dimple Ajmera, Charlotte City Council Member

Mary Belk, State House Member, Mecklenburg County

Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina

Elyse Dashew, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board

Eric Davis, Chairman, State Board of Education, and Former CMS Board Chair

Julie Eiselt, Charlotte City County Member

Harvey Gantt, Former Mayor of Charlotte

Jim Hunt Jr., Former Governor of North Carolina

Jeff Jackson, State Senator, Mecklenburg County

Vi Lyles, Mayor of Charlotte

President Barack Obama

Betty Chafin Rash, Former Charlotte Mayor Pro Tem

Jennifer Roberts, Former Mayor of Charlotte

Richard Vinroot, Former Mayor of Charlotte