Representative Joe John - Contact Information

Joe John is a Democratic Party candidate who represents the North Carolina House of Representatives District 40. He assumed office on January 1, 2017, and his current term ends on January 1, 2025. He is running for re-election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 40 and is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Joe John was born in East Chicago, Indiana. He earned an undergraduate degree after studying at Belmon Abbey College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John also earned M.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In addition to serving as a state representative, John has worked as an attorney with Greensboro Legal Aid Foundation, as an assistant district attorney and a chief assistant district attorney with the North Carolina 18th Judicial District, as an attorney in private practice with Pell, Pell, Weston & John, as a district court judge and a superior court judge for the North Carolina 18th Judicial District, as a North Carolina Court of Appeals judge, as a director of hearings and deputy commissioner for the North Carolina DMV, and as a director for the State of North Carolina Crime Laboratory.

For the 2023-2024 session, John was assigned to the Appropriations Committee and the House Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety Committee. In the 2021-2022 session, he was assigned to the House Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety Committee, Families, Children, and Aging Policy Committee, Judiciary II Committee, and House Transportation Committee.

As of the 2020 Census, North Carolina state representatives represented an average of 87,116 residents. After the 2010 Census, each member represented 79,715 residents. Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are not subject to term limits. North Carolina legislators assume office on January 1 the year after their election.