RALEIGH — Jeff Joyner, of American Legion Post 147, Rockingham, was elected for a two-year term as N.C. National Executive Committeeman during the N.C. Department of the American Legion Convention held June 29 to July 3 in Raleigh.
He fills one of the eight top state Legion department officers positions. This position is the highest national office in the N.C. Legion Department.
Joyner is familiar with the duties of his new office because since 2014, he served as the Alternate National Executive Committeeman.
He will begin serving his new term following the national convention held August 26 to September 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Then he will be one of the N.C. delegates with voting power at the American Legion’s National Convention in 2017.
Between national conventions each year, the National Executive Committee members from each state along with the national commander and vice commander have administrative power for the American Legion.
Joyner was N.C. Legion Department Commander for 2006-2007. He has served in eight different Legion offices with the state.
Besides Joyner’s election, the annual scrapbook prepared by Post 147 for its 2015-2016 activities won the state Legion Scrapbook Competition. It will be sent to National Legion Headquarters to be entered by the N.C. Legion into national competition.
Joyner joined Rockingham Post 147 in 1970 and has held every office there and several in the Legion’s 16th District since then. And, he was Legion Division IV Commander during 1989 to 1990.
A graduate of the American Legion Extension Institute, since 1998 Joyner has held positions in at least eight different offices with the National American Legion.
He became involved in N.C. Legion Department activities in 1973 as state sergeant-at-arms. He has continued until the present having served the state on seven different committees and commissions.
From 1964 to 1968, Joyner served aboard the U.S. Navy’s submarine USS James Monroe.
In addition to serving the American Legion, Joyner is presently chairman of the Richmond County Soil and Water District Board of Supervisors and a member of the N.C. Veterans Council.
Attending the state convention in addition to Joyner from Post 147 were: Robert L. Steele Sr., Carlton Hawkins, David Williams, Thomas Schoonover and Dr. Michael White.
Tom MacCallum is historian for American Legion Post 147.
