Get to Know John Lassiter

A successful entrepreneur and small business owner, John has business and public service expertise stretching over two decades.

With undergraduate and law degrees from Wake Forest University, John joined Belk Stores in 1983 serving as vice president in the legal department, and later Senior Vice President of Human Resources. In 1997, John founded Carolina Legal Staffing, which has grown to 4 offices in 2 states. The company was named to the INC5000 in 2007 and as a Top 100 Small Business in North Carolina in 2008

Since 2003, John has served as an at-large member of the Charlotte City Council and currently chairs the Economic Development and Planning Committee. He previously served on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education and served as vice chair from 1997 until 2001 and on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Planning Commission. He is President of the Mecklenburg County Bar and Past- President of the Children’s Law Center and has served on the boards for Crisis Assistance Ministries, Junior Achievement, Dowd YMCA, Center City Partners, North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Leadership Charlotte and the Charlotte Regional Partnership. He currently serves on the Parent’s Council at UNC Chapel Hill and served on the Law Alumni Council at Wake Forest University.

He is a 1991 fellow of the Institute of Political Leadership and a graduate of Leadership Charlotte, which recognized him with the Circle of Excellence award in 2001 and was most recently a member of Class 6 of CBI’s Leadership Development Initiative.

John and his wife of 26 years, Beverly, have two sons, Ben, a CPA in Charlotte and Alex, a student at UNC.

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