2026 General Election: November 3, 2026. New info launches early October.
Ben Cox
Party:
Republican
Incumbent:
No
Age:
66
Previous experience in elected office:
None
Occupation:
Attorney
Description:
Cox's website lists the following platform: knowledge you can trust, serving the community and effective leadership. On his Facebook page he states that he is the only self-funded candidate and the only attorney in the race. He is running because he believes the clerk's office is "badly in need of new leadership."
Other personal:
Cox has been in a private law practice for 24 years. His law office has been voted best in Cabarrus County for the last five years by CommunityVotes Concord. Cox is also the vice president of a nonprofit board that supports literacy. He is married and has one daughter. Cox earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Montreat College and worked for Duke Energy for 17 years. He then went back to school and earned a law degree from Campbell University.
Questionnaire from The Chamber, Leading Business in Cabarrus
Note that candidate responses are verbatim and have not been edited.
Please provide demographic information about yourself to help voters (age, education, current occupation, where you live).
I am 66 years old and a 30 year resident of Cabarrus County. I have been married for 23 years and we have one daughter. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Montreat College. I was employed with Duke Power for 17 years before leaving to attend the Campbell University School of Law. I graduated law school in 2001, passed the NC Bar exam and went directly into my own practice here in Concord where I still continue to practice. I also took and passed the SC Bar Exam in 2005 and am currently on active status and licensed in both NC and SC. In addition, I am the Vice-President of a 501(c)(3) that promotes literacy, a former adjunct professor of business law at Montreat College, former Board Member of the Cabarrus County Teen Court and Mediation Board and former Teen Court volunteer Judge. My law firm was voted the Best Law Firm/Best Attorney for five consecutive years.
Why are you running for this role and why should voters pick you? Please share any experience in an elected role that would be relevant to voters.
I am running because the Cabarrus County Clerk’s Office is overdue for a change and badly in need of new leadership. The office requires someone with a legal background that is not only familiar with the law but also who has a working knowledge of the law and how to find the law when the law is in question or being argued before the Clerk and how to apply it to the facts and circumstances before them. I am the only licensed attorney in the race.
I held multiple leadership roles while employed at Duke Power as well as in my involvement in the judicial system and in private practice.
Tell us about 2-3 professional accomplishments you have achieved in your work experience (not limited to public service) that give voters a sense of your leadership style or skills.
My office was voted Best Attorney and Best Law Firm for five consecutive years. I have also handled approximately 40,000 cases during my 24 years in private practice without a single complaint to the State Bar and maintain a 4.9 rating on Google.
What is one thing you would like to accomplish in the first six months if elected?
My goals during the first six months is to have the right people in the right positions. I also intend to restore morale, integrity, competence, transparency and ethics to the office. I also plan to meet with all the stakeholders that have interactions with and rely upon the office to see how the office can assist them and, in the process, produce a more productive, efficient and smooth operation of the legal system in Cabarrus County. All stakeholders, most importantly the public, should expect and, in fact, deserve service that is not just good, but great.