Vern L. Lindquist was named the fourth President of Johnston Community College in Smithfield, North Carolina in 2023. JCC is a comprehensive two-year college enrolling about 8,000 credit students annually. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Academics at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois; the Dean of Faculty and Chief Academic Officer of Richard Bland College of William & Mary in Petersburg, Virginia; and the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Delhi. He also spent nearly 20 years at Sullivan CCC (now SUNY Sullivan) as chair of the Arts and Letters Division, Honors Program coordinator, and professor of English.