JB Buxton

John B. (J.B.) Buxton

President, Durham Technical Community College

J.B. Buxton was appointed the 5th president of Durham Technical Community College in July 2020. Durham Tech serves approximately 18,000 students each year in nearly 100 programs leading to certificate, diploma, and degrees of economic value in Durham and Orange counties.

Prior to joining Durham Tech, Buxton’s leadership roles included serving as the Deputy State Superintendent of the NC Department of Public Instruction; Senior Education Advisor to NC Gov. Mike Easley; founder and principal of the Education Innovations Group, a strategic consulting practice focused on PreK-12 and postsecondary public education; and as a member of the NC State Board of Education. Buxton has an appointment as a part-time teaching assistant professor in the Public Policy Department at UNC-Chapel Hill. He began his career as a high school English teacher and coach.

Buxton attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English. He received his Master’s in Public Affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Buxton and his wife Hunter live in Durham and have three children: Drake, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill working with Alloy, a women’s health company; Luke, a UNC-CH graduate working with Omaha Productions; and Sadie, a graduate of the Fashion and Textile Management program in the College of Textile at NC State University.