NC Representative Rick Glazier is presently
serving his third term in the North Carolina General Assembly. Rick
is an employment and labor law attorney with a personal background of
neighborhood involvement and extensive public service.
Rick received his JD from Wake Forest
University in 1981. He is a Visiting Professor in Criminal Justice at
Fayetteville State University and has been teaching pre-trial law at
Campbell University School of Law for 11 years. He has previously taught
criminal justice as an adjunct professor at FTCC and NC State.
For over 25 years, Rick has dedicated
himself to the betterment of his community. He is a six-year veteran
board member of the Cumberland County School Board, serving two years
as Chairman, three years as Chair of the Finance and Budget Committee,
and co-Chair of the 1997 School Bond campaign.
Rick is past-president Beth Israel
Synagogue, where he taught Sunday school for many years. In the NC House of Representatives,
Rick quickly emerged as a champion for the issuesthat make a difference
to Cumberland County families: quality health care, affordable medication
for seniors, improving education for our children, preserving the environment
and assisting our military families.
He is currently serving as the Chair
of the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Education and the Joint Select Committee on Public School
Funding Formulas. He is the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Rules, Calendar
and Operations of the House, the Joint Select Committee on Emergency
Preparedness and Disaster Management and the Judiciary II Committee,
as well as serving as a member of several other standing and interim
committees including the Health, Military and Veteran’s Affairs and
Mental Health committees.
He has been married to Lisë, an art
teacher at 71st Classical Middle School, for 28 years. They have two
children, Philip and Megan, who are both attending NC State.
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