Mike Legg

Mike Legg serves as the City Manager for Kannapolis, a position he has held since 2004. Prior to 2004 he was Deputy City Manager for a number of years. Mike is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His professional career since 1989 has included employment with the City of Charlotte NC, the City of Cape Coral, Florida, the Western Piedmont Council of Governments in Hickory NC, Vice President of Benchmark, Inc. in Kannapolis through which Mike served as the City’s Planning Director for several years. He has worked in various capacities for the City of Kannapolis since 1995. He has been involved in dramatic change in Kannapolis over the past decade with the transformation of the community from a textile based economy to a regional economy with expanding roots in biotechnology and tourism.