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COUNCIL SELECTS WILMINGTON NATIVE AS NEW CITY ATTORNEY, WEEK OF OCTOBER 8-14, 2009
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 10/9/2009
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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
The City Council has chosen Wilmington native Carolyn Johnson as the new city attorney.Johnson has served as general counsel for the North Carolina Turnpike Authority since 2007. She is replacing long-time City Attorney Tom Pollard, who is retiring at the end of November.
Johnson will start work on Nov. 16.
Johnson has more than 20 years of government experience, including time in the mid 1980s in Wilmington, where she served as a paralegal for a law firm, an assistant district attorney and an equal opportunity employment specialist for New Hanover County.
Prior to serving at the Turnpike Authority, Johnson was a senior assist city attorney in Charlotte, where she provided legal oversight for the Charlotte Area Transit System and the Metropolitan Transit Commission.
Johnson has also served as legal counsel for the Triangle Transit Authority and as a senior legislative analyst for the NC General Assembly.
Johnson received a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Va. She is a graduate of New Hanover High School.
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