Charles L. Earney (Chuck) has been a practicing CPA for over 30 years and currently is a partner in Earney & Company, L.L.P., specializing in small business, tax and not-for-profit services in Wilmington. He has been a full-time assistant professor of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he taught financial accounting, corporate and individual tax and other topics. He retired from UNCW in June 2010. During the ten prior years (1972-1982), he was an audit manager in Milwaukee and then Charlotte, with Arthur Andersen & Co., an international CPA firm. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with MBA and BBA's in Accounting and then taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point until joining Arthur Andersen & Co.

He has had relevant business and not-for-profit experience during his entire career. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Village at Mayfaire, Howe Creek Owners Association, Smile for a Lifetime and NHRM Foundation advisory. He has been president of Plantation Village Retirement Community and Treasurer of Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Hospice at Charlotte. He is married and has two sons.