Reneé Johnson

Reneé Johnson

District 4 · Term 2025–2027

Reneé Johnson represents District 4 on the Charlotte City Council. She is the founder and executive director of Triumph Services, a nonprofit serving survivors of trauma. Johnson has served on council since 2019 and won re-election in November 2025.

Johnson has been active in discussions around the Citizens Review Board, shelter policy, consulting outsourcing, and displacement-related zoning votes. Her District 4 includes the University City municipal service district, which University City Partners runs.

Johnson founded Triumph Services, the behavioral-health nonprofit she leads, to serve trauma and brain-injury survivors and their caregivers. Her policy posture, preservation and production of housing at or below 60 percent AMI paired with services, tracks with that work. She first won the District 4 seat in 2019. In 2025 she beat Wil Russell in the Democratic primary and was the only name on the November ballot. Earlier in her tenure she championed adding ASL interpretation to council proceedings.

In September 2026 Johnson cast the only vote against landmark status for the First Union tower, after her motion to defer for more information failed. She asked the city to write “30% and below” into its housing bond policy and asked that the annexation process be referred to committee. In August she moved to defer a Hendrick Motorsports rezoning near her district until questions about its buffer were answered in writing.

In The Mercury