Rob Burton IV
- This article is about the Birmingham Land Bank Authority officer. For others with similar names, see Rob Burton (disambiguation)
James Robert Burton IV (born March 30, 1989 in New York City) is the executive director of SWEET Alabama and serves on the Board of Directors for the Birmingham Land Bank Authority
Burton is the son of investment banker J. Robert Burton III of Auburn, Alabama, and his wife, the former Barbara Blount Lovelace of Brewton, Alabama. He moved to Birmingham in 2008 from Bronxville, New York, and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 2012 he became a charter member of the Birmingham Young Professional Kiwanis Club. He served as executive director of the Magic City Agriculture Project from 2013 to 2017. He has served on the executive committee of the Alabama Sierra Club and co-chaired its "Beyond Coal" committee.
In 2017 Burton co-founded SWEET Alabama and the Friends of Dynamite Hill. He served on incoming Mayor Randall Woodfin's Social Justice Transition Team and was subsequently appointed to the Birmingham Land Bank Authority board of directors. He served as Secretary of the Birmingham Land Bank Authority's board of directors from 2018-2021, and currently serves as Chair of the Law and Legislation Committee and the Special Projects Committee.
Burton was elected to secretary of the Glen Iris Neighborhood Association in 2019 and also serves as secretary of the Southside Community Advisory Committee.
In 2020 Burton was named co-chair of Our Revolution-Birmingham.
References
- West, Ty (August 23, 2018) "Two appointed to Birmingham Land Bank Authority"" Birmingham Business Journal
- Prickett, Sam (October 2, 2018) "Birmingham Council Appoints 2 to Land Bank Authority Board, Pushes It to Become Self-Sustaining" Birmingham Watch
- "Acquiring Land via Birmingham Land Bank with J. Robert Burton" (February 25, 2020) Communal Expression