BURLINGTON – C. Thomas Steele Jr. of Burlington has been elected to a three-year term on the board of governors of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), joining six other attorneys from across the state.

As a member of the board of governors, Steele also serves on the board of directors of the NCBA Foundation. Steele was elected June 27 during the NCBA’s annual meeting at the Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville.

Steele also serves on the NCBA Strategic Planning & Emerging Trends Committee and Charter & Bylaws Committee. He is past chair of the Real Property Section of the NCBA, where he also served as vice chair, treasurer and chair of the section’s Legislative Committee. He was honored by the Real Property Section of the NCBA at its annual meeting at The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA, in April 2009 for his service as immediate past chair for the 2008-2009 year.

Steele was also named as a co-recipient of the Real Property Section’s Distinguished Service Award for extraordinary service to the council and the section as chair of the Partition sub-committee of the section’s Legislative Committee, as well as his assistance with other legislative matters and initiatives. Steele was honored along with the co-recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, Katherine B. Wilkerson, Real Property Section Legislative Committee chair.

An equity member of Wishart Norris Henninger & Pittman, Steele is a board-certified specialist in real property law – residential, business, commercial and industrial transactions – with the Burlington office. This year, he earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member, or CCIM, designation from the CCIM Institute in Chicago.

He is a Certified Public Accountant who also practices in estate planning and estate administration as well as business and commercial law.

Steele joined Wishart Norris Henninger & Pittman in 1987 and serves its board as a director.

Steele is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Steele of Burlington. He and wife Kim Hindman Steele are the parents of William and John Charles Steele.

He is a graduate of Burlington’s Walter M. Williams High School and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a bachelor’s with distinction in Accounting. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Steele is a member of the Love School of Business Accounting and Finance Advisory Board at Elon University. He is a board member and treasurer of the Alamance-Caswell Home Builders Association.

He is a board member of the Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell, LLC, and is a former treasurer, vice chair and chair of the group. He serves on the board of Hospice of Alamance-Caswell Foundation, Inc., and is a past vice chair and chair.

Steele is a member of Front Street United Methodist Church in Burlington, where he serves as a Sunday School teacher, member of the Staff Parish Relations Ministry Team, member of the Administrative Board and the Long Range Planning Committee. He chairs the Eagle Board of the Boy Scouts of America-Alamance County and is also a merit badge counselor. Further, he is a member of the Troop Committee for BSA Troop 142 at Shiloh United Methodist Church.

He is a member of the Alamance Battleground Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution and a member of the board of Alamance Battleground Friends, Inc.

With offices in Burlington and Charlotte, Wishart Norris Henninger & Pittman concentrates on serving the needs of closely held businesses as well as individuals in the areas of business, litigation, taxation, estate planning, real estate and land use, and family law.