North Carolina New Members 2023

Rep.-elect Don Davis (D-N.C.-1)

DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 29, 1971
RESIDENCE: Snow Hill, N.C.
OCCUPATION: state senator
EDUCATION: B.S., U.S. Air Drive Academy; M.S., Central Michigan College, M.A., Ed.D., East Carolina College
FAMILY: spouse, Yuvonka Davis; three youngsters

• Democrat Don Davis will symbolize North Carolina’s 1st District after besting his Republican challenger, Sandy Smith. The seat was left open after incumbent Rep. G.Okay. Butterfield (D) determined to not run for reelection.  

Davis is a veteran and following his commencement from america Air Drive Academy he was commissioned into the Air Drive the place he served for eight years. He was answerable for coordinating Air Drive One operations at Joint Base Andrews. 

Davis returned to North Carolina as an assistant professor of aerospace research at East Carolina College whereas stationed at Air Drive ROTC Detachment 600.

He has served because the mayor of Snow Hill, N.C., and was the youngest particular person to carry the place, after being elected when he was solely 29. He then launched his first bid on the state Senate in 2008 and has served six phrases. 

— Camdyn Bruce

Rep.-elect Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.-4)

DATE OF BIRTH: Might 7, 1956
RESIDENCE: Hillsborough, N.C.
OCCUPATION: state senator
EDUCATION: B.A., College of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
FAMILY: husband, Stan Foushee; two youngsters

• Valerie Foushee defeated Republican Courtney Geels to turn into the brand new congressional consultant for North Carolina’s 4th District. The seat was left open after Rep. David Value (D) selected to retire.

Foushee is the oldest of six youngsters born to teenage dad and mom who labored a number of jobs to make ends meet.

She labored for 21 years as an administrator for the Chapel Hill Police Division. However she says it was her volunteer work at her youngsters’s elementary college that made her understand children, particularly Black and brown children, wanted somebody to symbolize them and impressed her to make a profitable run for the college board.

Foushee would go on to be the primary Black lady elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners and finally serve within the North Carolina state Home and state Senate.

Legislatively, Foushee helps increasing civil rights for the LGBTQ group, girls and immigrants. 

— Camdyn Bruce

Rep.-elect Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.-11)

DATE OF BIRTH: Sept. 13, 1960
RESIDENCE: Flat Rock, N.C.
OCCUPATION: enterprise proprietor
EDUCATION: attended Blue Ridge Group Faculty
FAMILY: spouse, Teresa Edwards; two youngsters

• Chuck Edwards will function the brand new congressman for North Carolina’s eleventh Congressional District after beating Democratic challenger Jasmine Seashore-Ferrara. The district seat was left open after Edwards defeated Rep. Madison Cawthorn within the Republican major.

Edwards was born and raised in western North Carolina, and he bought his first style of the enterprise world on the age of 16 when he started working at a McDonald’s in Hendersonville. Years later, he bought the McDonald’s franchise the place he started, together with different areas in Henderson, Transylvania and Haywood counties. 

Politically, Edwards served three phrases as a North Carolina state senator.

A few of Edwards’s legislative priorities embody strengthening safety on the southern border, balancing the finances by supporting a balanced finances modification to the Structure and serving to the U.S. to turn into vitality impartial. 

— Camdyn Bruce

Rep.-elect Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.-13)

DATE OF BIRTH: Nov. 23, 1975
RESIDENCE: Cary, N.C.
OCCUPATION: state senator, lawyer
EDUCATION: B.A., Tulane College; J.D., Pepperdine College
FAMILY: spouse, Caroline Nickel; two youngsters

• Wiley Nickel is the brand new congressional consultant for North Carolina’s thirteenth District, edging out Trump-backed Republican challenger Bo Hines. Nickel’s win marks the primary time in a decade {that a} Democrat has represented the swing district. The seat was left open after incumbent Rep. Ted Budd (R) determined to run for Senate.

Nickel is a felony protection lawyer and has beforehand labored in a number of district lawyer’s places of work. Nickel additionally has political expertise working for 2 White Home administrations, together with as marketing campaign employees for former President Obama. Throughout his time working for Obama, he discovered that discovering widespread floor and constructing coalitions is the way in which to get actual outcomes for hardworking American households, in accordance with his marketing campaign website.

Since 2019, Nickel has served because the state senator for North Carolina’s sixteenth District. As state senator, he authored a invoice to enhance little one literacy and to place a nurse in each public college. He additionally fought to cross bipartisan laws to develop rural broadband. 

— Camdyn Bruce

Rep.-elect Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.-14)

DATE OF BIRTH: Sept. 12, 1982
RESIDENCE: Charlotte, N.C.
OCCUPATION: state senator, Military Nationwide Guard member
EDUCATION: B.A., M.A., Emory College; J.D., College of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
FAMILY: spouse, Marisa Jackson; three youngsters

• Jeff Jackson will symbolize North Carolina’s 14th District after besting Republican challenger Pat Harrigan. The newly added 14th District, which encompasses western Charlotte, was created after inhabitants development was discovered within the 2020 census.

Jackson is a veteran who served in Afghanistan. He continues to serve right now as a serious within the Military Nationwide Guard. Presently, he’s in his nineteenth 12 months of army service.

Jackson attended legislation college on the College of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with assist from the G.I. Invoice and went on to function the assistant district lawyer in Gaston County, the place he tried greater than 100 circumstances.

Politically, Jackson grew to become the second-youngest particular person elected to the North Carolina state Senate in 2014. As a state senator, Jackson has fought to reform the felony justice system and  develop Medicaid, and he has displayed a fierce dedication to ending gerrymandering within the state. 

— Camdyn Bruce