Carolyn Johnson has served as Wilmington's City Attorney since November, 2009.

Prior to working for the City of Wilmington, Johnson served as general counsel for the North Carolina Turnpike Authority. She has more than 20 years of government experience starting in the mid 1980s in Wilmington, when she served as a paralegal for a law firm, an assistant district attorney and an equal opportunity employment specialist for New Hanover County.

Before working at the Turnpike Authority, Johnson was a senior assistant city attorney in Charlotte, NC 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.