For years, Lucille Puckett has challenged the Charlotte Housing Authority over its decisions to ban troublemakers from its properties.
Now, she could be next.

The Charlotte Housing Authority has gone to court to evict Lucille Puckett, the agency’s resident director, from her unit at Dillehay Courts.

The eviction process, first reported by WCNC, was confirmed Wednesday in a CHA press release.

According to court documents and those familiar with the case, Puckett violated CHA policy by allowing a man banned from public housing into her unit. The man was banned after a misdemeanor conviction for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana.

“While it is unfortunate this occurred, we cannot conduct business with a Commissioner any differently than any other CHA resident,” housing authority CEO Charles Woodyard said in a statement.

A North Carolina court has upheld the eviction notice, but Puckett has appealed. CHA officials said that process could take from 60 days to more than a year.

According to the profile on he Facebook page, Puckett is a 1968 graduate of Murray Wright High School in Detroit and holds an undergraduate degree in social work from South Carolina State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

According to a WCNC article printed in the Charlotte Observer, Puckett did not dispute that she has met with a 24-year-old man banned from CHA property. She was quoted as saying that she was mentoring the man.

WCNC reported that she has eight biological children and five adopted children. The family lives in a CHA complex between North Graham and North Tryon streets

By rule, the CHA Board of Commissioners is a seven-member governing body appointed by the mayor and city council. At least one member must be a CHA resident.

Puckett will remain on the board during her appeal.
 

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