PUBLIC SERVICE · 2022–2025
ABOUT MARJORIE MOLINA
Marjorie Molina came to public service with a life and career already shaped by business, community, entrepreneurship, and more than two decades of living and working in Charlotte.
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
Experience Across Sectors
20+
YEARS LIVING AND WORKING IN CHARLOTTE
Her path was never confined to one sector. She built her career across financial services, community development, entrepreneurship, organizational leadership, strategic relationship management, and cross-sector work, working inside complex institutions while developing a deep understanding of how decisions made within them are experienced by the people and communities outside of them. That perspective became central to the way she approached public leadership.
CHARLOTTE CITY COUNCIL
Serving Charlotte and District 5
2022
2025
In 2022, following the postponement of Charlotte’s 2021 municipal election to allow for redistricting after delayed 2020 Census data, Molina was elected to the Charlotte City Council to represent District 5, a diverse East Charlotte district serving roughly 125,000 residents. She was reelected in 2023 and served two terms.
Her service extended across Charlotte. As a member of the City Council, Molina participated in decisions affecting the entire city, including transportation, development, infrastructure, economic growth, public investment, and Charlotte’s long-term future.
She served as Vice Chair of the Transportation, Planning and Development Committee and as a member of the Jobs and Economic Development Committee. Those assignments placed her at the intersection of some of Charlotte’s most consequential questions: how a rapidly growing city moves people, attracts investment, develops land, strengthens neighborhoods, creates opportunity, and directs growth.
PUBLIC LEADERSHIP
Leadership Through Connection and Understanding
Molina brought curiosity, preparation, listening, and the ability to understand an issue from more than one vantage point to that work. Her approach often centered on connecting people who did not naturally sit at the same table, translating between institutions and communities, and asking what a decision would mean beyond the meeting room where it was made.
That approach was especially visible in East Charlotte, where redevelopment, transportation, housing, neighborhood identity, economic opportunity, and decades of uneven investment frequently intersected. Molina pushed for communities to be understood through their people, assets, history, possibility, and place in Charlotte’s future.
Her public-service record includes work connected to major redevelopment efforts, neighborhood investment, transportation and infrastructure planning, economic development, community priorities, and projects intended to expand opportunity across Charlotte. The Work & Impact section of this site preserves a selection of that record.
EDUCATION & RECOGNITION
Experience and Recognition
Her experience across private enterprise, mission-driven organizations, entrepreneurship, and government has given her a working knowledge of how institutions make decisions, deploy resources, build partnerships, and move complex work forward.
Education
She earned a Master of Science in Business Management from UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business and completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard Kennedy School.
Recognition
Her leadership has been recognized beyond Charlotte. She received the National League of Cities Women in Municipal Government Leadership Award in 2024 and was named a 2025 Charlotte Business Journal Women in Business honoree.
EXPERIENCE & CONTINUITY
A Chapter of Public Service
Across business, community, and government, Molina’s work has centered on understanding how systems operate, connecting people across them, and helping move consequential work forward.
This site preserves her chapter of service on the Charlotte City Council — the communities, decisions, relationships, and work that shaped it.
That chapter sits within a broader career across business, community and public leadership—and continues to inform the work ahead.