List of Lumbees

This is a list of notable members of the Lumbee tribe.

List

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• Dean Chavers, Ph.D., Director of Catching the Dream, formerly called the Native American Scholarship Fund.
• Ben Chavis, Ph.D., author, and advocate of high-quality urban education. From 2000, he was an early leader of Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School. It won a National Blue Ribbon Award in 2007. He was indicted in March 2017 on six felony counts for money laundering and mail fraud, in association with certain activities at the school.^[1][2]
• Chris Chavis, a professional wrestler.
• Kenwin Cummings, NFL player (linebacker); attended Wingate University.
• Johnny Hunt, a Southern Baptist clergyman, senior pastor, former national president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
• Ashton Locklear, elite artistic gymnast, 2014 world champion with the United States team, 2016 Olympic Team Alternate and 2017 World Championship team member
• Julian Pierce, lawyer. In 1988, Pierce ran for a newly created Superior Court Judgeship in Robeson County but was shot and killed at home. Ballot counts gave the victory to Pierce. He would have been the first Native American to hold the position of Superior Court Judge in the state.
• Jana (born Jana Sampson), two-time Grammy-nominated singer. She has won 10 Nammy Awards.
• Kelvin Sampson, athletic collegiate and professional coach, the assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team of the National Basketball Association.
• Helen Maynor Scheirbeck was appointed by Congress to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Board of Directors, and continues to serve as NMAI's Assistant Director of Public Programs.

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