Daniel G. Clodfelter (born June 2, 1950) is an American politician and attorney from North Carolina.

He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the State's thirty-seventh Senate district, which includes constituents in Mecklenburg County, from January 1999 through April 8, 2014, when he resigned after being appointed Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Clodfelter was born in Thomasville, North Carolina and graduated from Thomasville Senior High School, after attending one of the first sessions of the Governor's School of North Carolina in 1966.

[2] He earned a bachelor's degree from Davidson College, where he was a brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

[3] In 1972 and was named a Rhodes Scholar and earned another bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1974.