Luebke taught
sociology at
Tougaloo College, a historically black college in
Jackson, Mississippi, from 1971 to 1975. He taught sociology at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1976. Luebke began teaching sociology at UNC Greensboro in 1976 and was awarded tenure in 1982. He was a member of the sociology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, specializing in political sociology. He served on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority from 1987 until 1991. He served as a board member of the
North Carolina Consumers Council as a consumer rights advocate. He was elected to the
state House of Representatives in Durham's District 23, which then had three members, in 1990 and took up his position in 1991. • Agriculture • Education • Finance • Government • Public utilities • Rules, calendar and operations of the House He was a chairman of the Finance committee and of the select committee on Municipal Annexation, as well as vice-chairman of the Election Law, Campaign Finance Reform and Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House committees. He was also a member of the Energy and Energy Efficiency committee and the Environmental and Natural Resources committee. He thought of himself as a "Progressive Democrat" and said that "I am especially proud that, during the 1990s, I led the bipartisan effort to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries; and that, in 2009, I was a primary House sponsor of the Racial Justice Act." ==Books==