Career
Foreign the similarly named television journalist, see Joe Johns. He served on that court from 1992 until 2000. Previously, he had been a state superior court and state district court judge, based in Greensboro.
He had also been a prosecutor and practiced at the firm of Pell, Pell & Weston.
In 2010, Judge John was named interim director of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation crime lab by North Carolina Attorney General Roy A. Cooper. He was named to the post on a permanent basis in 2011.
John retired in 2014. He is running for a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016.
