Bill Fountain

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Bill Fountain

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Elections and appointments

Last election

November 4, 2025

Education

Bachelor's

Mississippi State University

Graduate

Central Michigan University

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Air Force

Personal

Religion

Roman Catholic

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Bill Fountain ran for election to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education to represent District 1 in North Carolina. He lost in the general election on November 4, 2025.

Fountain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Bill Fountain served in the U.S. Air Force. He earned a bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University and a graduate degree from Central Michigan University. Fountain has been affiliated with Toastmasters, Civil Air Patrol, and the American Legion.

Elections

2025

See also: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina, elections (2025)

General election

General election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education District 1

Charlitta Hatch defeated Bill Fountain and incumbent Melissa Easley in the general election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education District 1 on November 4, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlitta Hatch (Nonpartisan)	45.0	15,579
		Bill Fountain (Nonpartisan)	29.3	10,128
		Melissa Easley (Nonpartisan)	25.7	8,901

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source	Total votes: 34,608
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Endorsements

Fountain received the following endorsements.

• Mecklenburg County, N.C., Republican Party
• The Charlotte Observer Editorial Board

2023

See also: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina, elections (2023)

General election

General election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education At-large (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education At-large on November 7, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Lenora Shipp (Nonpartisan)	14.8	45,882
✔	Submit photo	Liz Monterrey Duvall (Nonpartisan)	12.4	38,601
✔		Monty Witherspoon (Nonpartisan)	12.4	38,570
	Submit photo	Shamaiye Haynes (Nonpartisan)	10.2	31,702
		Bill Fountain (Nonpartisan)	8.0	24,976
		Annette Albright (Nonpartisan)	7.9	24,590
	Submit photo	Claire Covington (Nonpartisan)	7.2	22,481
	Submit photo	Michael Johnson (Nonpartisan)	6.8	21,065
		Clara Kennedy Witherspoon (Nonpartisan)	4.8	14,861
	Submit photo	Omar Harris (Nonpartisan)	4.0	12,396
	Submit photo	Brian Kasher (Nonpartisan)	4.0	12,319
	Submit photo	Peggy A. Capehart (Nonpartisan)	2.4	7,429
		Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel (Nonpartisan)	2.4	7,357
	Submit photo	Juanrique Pallamente Hall (Nonpartisan)	2.3	7,259
		Other/Write-in votes	0.4	1,298

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 310,786
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Fountain in this election.

2022

See also: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education District 1

Melissa Easley defeated incumbent Rhonda Cheek, Ro Lawsin, Bill Fountain, and Hamani Fisher in the general election for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education District 1 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Melissa Easley (Nonpartisan)	30.3	18,843
		Rhonda Cheek (Nonpartisan)	23.7	14,744
	Submit photo	Ro Lawsin (Nonpartisan)	17.4	10,813
		Bill Fountain (Nonpartisan)	15.3	9,522
	Submit photo	Hamani Fisher (Nonpartisan)	12.5	7,803
		Other/Write-in votes	0.9	551

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 62,276
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Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Bill Fountain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fountain's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I’m Bill Fountain, a Christian, husband, father, retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, business manager, NC licensed teacher, and candidate for the CMS school board district one.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• For too long, CMS has put social and political agenda ahead of academic excellence, leaving about 2/3rds of students that don’t meet the state standard for reading and math.
• It's time to focus on what works, better behavior, strong character formation, and the basics: reading, writing, and math.
• I have the leadership, teamwork, and in the classroom experience to be an effective change agent in preparing students for success, empowering parents, promoting school choice, and upholding traditional values in our classrooms.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Build Strong Schools with Strong Character & Virtues

Integrity: Do what’s right—even when no one is watching.
Fortitude: Don’t quit when it gets hard—grow stronger through it.
Accountability: Own your actions. Fix your mistakes.

“Parents & Teachers, model it. Students, live it.”

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Integrity: Do what’s right—even when no one is watching.

Fortitude: Don’t quit when it gets hard—grow stronger through it.

Accountability: Own your actions. Fix your mistakes.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

to represent the community by setting the vision, policy, and oversight

What is your favorite book? Why?

Augustine's Confessions. A story of recounting his life, conversion, and spiritual journey.

What is the primary job of a school board member in your view?

Set Direction & Vision – establish priorities, goals, and values for the district.

Adopt Policy & Budget – ensure taxpayer funds are spent responsibly and aligned with student success.

Hire & Evaluate the Superintendent – the board’s one employee, responsible for carrying out the board’s policies.

Accountability & Transparency – measure progress, communicate with the public, and make sure student outcomes improve.

Advocate for Students & Families – keep the focus on academic excellence, safety, and preparing students for the future.

What existing district policies would you like to change, or what new policies would you like to implement?

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Mecklenburg County GOP

Are there any areas of school curriculum you would like to see changed?

Build Strong Schools with Strong Character & Virtues

Integrity: Do what’s right—even when no one is watching.
Fortitude: Don’t quit when it gets hard—grow stronger through it.
Accountability: Own your actions. Fix your mistakes.

“Parents & Teachers, model it. Students, live it.”

What role should artificial intelligence have in your school district?

Capture the future:

Master the basics: reading, writing, and math

Harness AI tools for success

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2023

Bill Fountain did not complete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Bill Fountain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fountain's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Hi, I’m Bill Fountain and I’m running for the CMS Board of Education District One seat. I’m a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel where I served as a fighter pilot in combat and as the program element monitor for the Air Force’s huge munitions budget. After twenty years in the Air Force, I joined a large aerospace corporation where I had the privilege to manage two successful hundred million dollars programs. After another twenty years, I retired again and my wife and I moved to North Carolina, Soon, I left retirement to teach high school for ten years plus volunteer with NC’s Civil Air Patrol, helping the youth, yes, The Fountain for the Youth. Over the past year, I’ve regularly spoken at the CMS school board against the invasion of woke culture into our schools. I’m convinced that wokism is the genesis of our schools' dismal student performance and safety issues. Of the five candidates for district one, I’m the only one challenging this woke invasion into our schools.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• In spite of the necessity for structure and stability in children, the eight women of the school board slipped in woke disrupting agents such as pornographic books and gender identity spinning children’s moral compass from right to wrong.
• These eight women have manipulated equity to convince black and brown children that they are victims, thus snatching away their self-worth and telling them they're entitled to special help, thus robbing them of their will to improve themselves.
• They also insist that troublemakers not be disciplined because of race, jumbled gender notions, or some special status, which undermines teachers' efforts to maintain a productive classroom. Plus, it reinforces bad behavior in the troublemakers and bullies which places fear in orderly students. It’s no wonder we have low performing and unsafe schools. These women have tumbled our children’s equilibrium for what’s good behavior and knowing right from wrong to the point, many parents are afraid to send their children to school and teachers are leaving.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

To tackle this woke elephant ravaging our fields of dreams, our schools, I’d introduce and solicit community support to drop the gender identification program to help students regain a moral compass, next realign social emotion learning from victimhood and racism to advocating virtues and self-reliance, third, insist principals discipline troublemakers to support teachers in managing their classrooms and instill right from wrong, and fourth free teachers to focus on content. I will advocate that we’re all God’s children and insist that virtues, self-reliance, and patriotism are taught. Elect Bill Fountain for CMS board district one, the only candidate to arrest wokism.

Thank you

Check out TV interview at https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/08/24/former-teacher-air-force-pilot-joins-school-board-race-to-combat-wokism/

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