Renée Johnson
District 4 · Term 2025–2027
Renée Perkins 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 covers West Charlotte, where affordable housing pressure, community investment, and equitable development are central issues.
Background
Perkins 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 and was re-elected in 2022 and 2023, the latter despite a rare mayoral endorsement against her in the Democratic primary. She returned to office in November 2025. Earlier in her tenure she championed adding ASL interpretation to council proceedings, adopted in 2022.
In The Mercury
Renée Johnson Brought a CMS School-Utilization Report to Council Monday. She Has Been Making This Argument for Five Years.
CMS school utilization · May 20
Charlotte Council Deferred a Conventional Rezoning 5-4 Monday. Renée Johnson Led the Opposition.
Conventional rezoning deferral · May 19
What The Mayor Pro Tem Vote Reveals About Charlotte's New City Council
Council dynamics and alignment
Charlotte City Council Approves $4.3M Transit Authority Start-Up
Transit authority funding and infrastructure
Charlotte's Watchdog Board Seeks Teeth, Time, and Transparency
Citizens Review Board reform
Charlotte City Council Zoning Meeting, Dec. 15
Displacement vote, Brookhill overlay, TOD disputes
Sheltering Dignity: Charlotte's Non-Congregate Shelter Plan, Metrics, and Guardrails
Homelessness response and shelter policy
← Back to City Council