He is also a member of AICP. Bob received his law and planning degrees from the University of North Carolina (JD and MRP 1982). He was the assistant city attorney in Wilmington (1988-95), and was the city attorney for Greenville (1995-97) and Asheville (1997-2013). He was a full time member of the faculty at The Ohio State University, teaching law in the Planning section of the Knowlton School of Architecture(2103-16), and is still an adjunct faculty member there. He is now in private practice with McGuire, Wood & Bissette in Asheville, where he focuses on land use and local government law. Bob is a former president of the NC Association of Municipal Attorneys, and a past chair of the Zoning, Planning, and Land Use Law section of the NC Bar Association. Read Less