Chuck Williams (Johnston County Schools, North Carolina)

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Chuck Williams

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Elections and appointments

Last election

November 3, 2020

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Birthplace

Charlotte, N.C.

Religion

Christian

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Chuck Williams ran for election for an at-large seat of the Johnston County Schools Board of Education in North Carolina. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Williams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Williams was born on January 6, 1970, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Elections

2020

See also: Johnston County Schools, North Carolina, elections (2020)

General election

General election for Johnston County Schools Board of Education At-large (4 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Johnston County Schools Board of Education At-large on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Ronald Johnson (Nonpartisan)	16.6	53,011
✔	Submit photo	Lyn Andrews (Nonpartisan)	15.1	48,086
✔	Submit photo	Kay Carroll (Nonpartisan)	13.5	43,002
✔	Submit photo	Mike Wooten (Nonpartisan)	13.1	41,821
	Submit photo	Terry Tippett (Nonpartisan)	12.6	40,174
		Teresa Grant (Nonpartisan)	11.2	35,790
		Chuck Williams (Nonpartisan)	9.6	30,606
		Rick Mercier (Nonpartisan)	7.6	24,265
		Other/Write-in votes	0.6	1,903

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 318,658
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Johnston County Schools Board of Education At-large (4 seats)

The following candidates ran in the primary for Johnston County Schools Board of Education At-large on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Ronald Johnson (Nonpartisan)	13.4	16,263
✔	Submit photo	Lyn Andrews (Nonpartisan)	10.8	13,124
✔	Submit photo	Kay Carroll (Nonpartisan)	10.0	12,174
✔	Submit photo	Mike Wooten (Nonpartisan)	8.8	10,702
✔		Chuck Williams (Nonpartisan)	8.0	9,717
✔	Submit photo	Terry Tippett (Nonpartisan)	6.8	8,264
✔		Teresa Grant (Nonpartisan)	6.7	8,131
✔		Rick Mercier (Nonpartisan)	5.6	6,866
	Submit photo	Mark Lane (Nonpartisan)	5.6	6,767
	Submit photo	Ava Atkinson Gaines (Nonpartisan)	4.7	5,710
	Submit photo	Carolyn Cash (Nonpartisan)	3.8	4,642
		Kenon Crumble (Nonpartisan)	3.6	4,350
	Submit photo	Kelly O'Hanlon-Peedin (Nonpartisan)	3.4	4,184
		Melynda Slay (Nonpartisan)	3.1	3,760
	Submit photo	Michelle Antoine (Nonpartisan)	3.1	3,732
	Submit photo	Yvonne Marlowe (Nonpartisan)	2.8	3,414

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 121,800
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Chuck Williams completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Williams' 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.

Chuck Williams MD grew up in Raleigh, NC and received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his medical degree from Wake Forest University. He completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

Chuck has practiced in Clayton, NC with Horizon Family Medicine for fifteen years. He co-founded Project Access of Johnston County, a non-profit devoted to providing free health care to those without health insurance. He has served as the Chief of Medicine at Johnston Medical Center, on the leadership board of Southside Church in Clayton and has enjoyed coaching many of his boys' sports teams over the years.

Chuck is passionate about education and its inter-relatedness to health.

Chuck and his wife Robin have lived in Clayton for twenty years and have two boys attending Clayton High School and one attending NC State University.

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?

• Our board of education would benefit from a physician voice as we continue to deal with COVID-19 and its associated educational losses for our students.
• I am a parent with two children in our public schools currently. It's important for our board to have parents as members.
• I am a first time office seeker. I have no political alliances or connections to the school system which will influence my service and will bring fresh ideas to the board.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As a parent, physician, teacher, business owner, school volunteer and community leader I am uniquely qualified amongst all the candidates to represent you on our Board of Education.

There has never a more important time for the system to have a physician voice on the board as we continue to navigate the COVID19 pandemic. Not only do we have to make decisions this fall about how we return students and staff to school safely but we will also have to address the "fallout" from COVID and all the educational losses that will result from the students' time away from the classrooms. COVID isn't going anywhere and we will be making policy decisions around the virus well into 2021.

It's critical to have parents with children currently in the school system on our board. Parents with children in the schools have a unique perspective on day-to-day operations, the morale of the schools, and the concerns of our principals and teachers. We're helping with homework, walking the halls, attending school events and interacting with teachers. We see first hand how our schools are performing and have the most vested interest of any stakeholder in making sure our schools are performing with excellence.

Finally, I'm a business owner who is new to the board with no connection to the school system. I don't have any family members working for the system. I've never served on the board before. The board of needs a candidate with new ideas, business sense and fresh energy. That's me!

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

My father - he came from very humble beginnings growing up in rural North Carolina and he taught me at a young age that education is the great equalizer. He became a successful businessman who worked tirelessly to give back to his community in particular in the area of education. He taught me through example that education can indeed by the great equalizer for all people.

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

First - and arguably most important - the school board hires a superintendent to lead the system. Like most organizations, a school system is only as good as its top leadership so this is a vital task. The average tenure of a school superintendent is around five years so the person the board hires has a reasonable length of time to set goals and pursue policies that achieve those goals.

Secondly, the board of education sets the vision for the entire system along with the superintendent. In this sense there is an interesting symbiotic relationship between the board and the superintendent. The board hires the superintendent but then must allow that leader the freedom to implement his or her vision and enthusiastically support that vision to achieve the goals set out by both parties. The board also has to resist the temptation to micromanage. If the board moves beyond its purpose by placing itself in the midst of every decision or policy the board can actually sabotage the superintendent and those he has hired to carry out our vision. The board has to discipline itself to step back and let the professionals carry out their jobs without interference.

Having said this, there are some specific tasks the board is required to perform that do involve attention to details and this is the third task of the board I'll touch on - the submission of an annual budget. In our county the Board of Education develops the budget and then the County Commissioners allocate the money. With two groups involved - one board creating the spending plan and the other actually authorizing the money to be spent - one can understand how important co-operation between these groups needs to be.

Finally the fourth role of the board is to provide accountability to the constituency of the schools - all of the parents, students, staff and even taxpayers who don't have children in the public schools.

Who are your constituents?

Parents, teachers, students, school administrators, school employees and all the taxpayers in our county.

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