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1. Recent decades · 1976–2026

2. 2001–2009
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Mark Kleinschmidt serves on the Chapel Hill Town Council

   Kleinschmidt was elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2001 and served until 2009. He was executive director of the Fair Trial Initiative and a former board president of the state ACLU affiliate.

3. 2015
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Mark Kleinschmidt leaves the Chapel Hill mayor's office

   Kleinschmidt served as mayor from his election in November 2009 until 2015.

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