Jeffrey L. Barnhart is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly

North Carolina General Assembly

The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The General Assembly drafts and legislates the state laws of North Carolina, also known as the General Statutes...

 representing the state's Eighty-second House District, including constituents in Cabarrus

Cabarrus County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 131,063 people, 49,519 households, and 36,545 families residing in the county. The population density was 360 people per square mile . There were 52,848 housing units at an average density of 145 per square mile...

 County. A businessman, Barnhart served in the state's House of Representatives

North Carolina House of Representatives

The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the state senate....

 from 2001-2011. He resigned September 30, 2011, to join the consulting firm McGuireWoods

McGuireWoods

McGuireWoods LLP is a major U.S. law firm with more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices in the United States and Europe. With the firm's largest offices in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, McGuireWoods has recently experienced a period of rapid growth by opening new offices in London in...

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Personal life

Barnhart was born in Waverly, New York

Waverly, New York

Waverly is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York:*Waverly, Tioga County, New York, a village in New York's Southern Tier*Waverly, Franklin County, New York, a town in Northern New York...

 to Fred Harrison and Mildred Lorraine Sjostrom Barnhart. He and his wife Jody (Springston) have four children and one other child with another.

Education

Graduated from Waverly High School in 1974. He then attended Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...

 and earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Technology in 1981.

Early Political career

• Cabarrus County Commissioner – 10 years
• Acting County Manager – Cabarrus County – 8 months
• Cabarrus Economic Development Board of Directors – 9 years
• Water & Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County – 6 years

Conservatism

Barnhart serves on the board of directors for the conservative nonprofit website, Rightchange.com

RightChange.com

RightChange.com is a American conservative political group. It is devoted to electing conservative U.S. Republican Party candidates, thus the reference to the political right in its name...

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