Paul Luebke is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 30th House District, which includes constituents in Durham County.
Background
Paul Luebke was born on January 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois., to Paul and Eunice Luebke. His father was a teacher and education administrator and his mother was a homemaker. During his high school years he moved to Ankara, Turkey, where his father worked as an education advisor to the Turkish government for the United States. Foreign Aid Program.
Education
While living in Turkey he studied at Privatschule der deutschen Botschaft, a German embassy school in Ankara, from 1959 until 1962. After high school, Luebke attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.
Career
A professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as at February 2011 Luebke is serving his eleventh consecutive two year term in the state House of Representatives. Luebke spent his childhood living in Chicago, Detroit and Saint Louis. In 1966 he earned a bachelor of arts in government from Valparaiso University in Indiana.
He earned a doctorate in political sociology from Columbia University in 1975.
After graduate school he moved to the Durham area. Paul Luebke married Carol Gallione.
They live in Durham and have two grown children, Theo and Emily. The Luebke family is Lutheran.
Paul Luebke taught sociology at Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi from 1971 to 1975.
He taught sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1976. Luebke began teaching sociology at University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1976 and was awarded tenure in 1982. He served on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority from 1987 until 1991.
He was elected to the state House of Representatives in Durham"s District 23, which then had three members, in 1990 and took up his position in 1991.
Agriculture
Education
Finance
Government
Public utilities
Rules, calendar and operations of the House
He has been a chairman of the Finance committee and of the select committee on Municipal Annexation, as well as vice-chairman of the Election Law, Campaign Finance Reform and Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House committees. He thinks of himself as a "Progressive Democrat" and has said that "I am especially proud that, during the 1990s, I led the bipartisan effort to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries.
And that, in 2009, I was a primary House sponsor of the Racial Justice Acting."
Luebke is also the author of two books about North Carolina politics: Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990) and Tar Heel Politics 2000 (1998).
Membership
He is a member of the sociology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in political sociology. He has served as a board member of the North Carolina Consumers Council as a consumer rights advocate. As of February 2011 Luebke represents District 30 and he is a member of the following committees:
He has also in the past been a member of the Energy and Energy Efficiency committee and the Environmental and Natural Resources committee.