Valerie Foushee

Valerie P. Foushee is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 23rd district (Orange and Chatham counties) in the North Carolina Senate. She previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

Elected to the House in 2012, Foushee was selected by local Democrats to fill a vacancy in the Senate caused by the resignation of Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird in 2013.^[1]

She was reelected in 2014 and 2016.

During the legislative session beginning in 2015, Foushee is one of 12 African Americans to serve in the North Carolina Senate.^[2]

References

↑ Independent Weekly
↑ "North Carolina African-American Legislators 1969-2015*" (PDF). Retrieved 27 February 2016.

Members of the North Carolina State Senate

President of the Senate: Dan Forest (R) President pro Tempore: Phil Berger (R) Majority Leader: Harry Brown (R) Minority Leader: Dan Blue (D)

Bill Cook (R) Norm Sanderson (R) Erica Smith-Ingram (D) Angela Bryant (D) Don Davis (D) Harry Brown (R) Louis Pate (R) Bill Rabon (R) Michael V. Lee (R) Brent Jackson (R) E. S. (Buck) Newton (R) Ronald J. Rabin (R) Jane W. Smith (D) Dan Blue (D) John M. Alexander Jr. (R) Josh Stein (D) Tamara Barringer (R) Chad Barefoot (R) Wesley Meredith (R) Floyd McKissick Jr. (D) Ben Clark (D) Mike Woodard (D) Valerie Foushee (D) Rick Gunn (R) Tom McInnis (R) Phil Berger (R) Trudy Wade (R) Gladys A. Robinson (D) Jerry W. Tillman (R) Shirley B. Randleman (R) Joyce Krawiec (R) Paul Lowe (D) Stan Bingham (R) Andrew C. Brock (R) Tommy Tucker (R) Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr. (R) Jeff Jackson (D) Joel D. M. Ford (D) Bob Rucho (R) Joyce Waddell (D) Jeff Tarte (R) Andy Wells (R) Kathy Harrington (R) David L. Curtis (R) Dan Soucek (R) Warren Daniel (R) Ralph Hise (R) Tom Apodaca (R) Terry Van Duyn (D) Jim Davis (R)

Republican (34) Democratic (16) North Carolina General Assembly North Carolina House of Representatives North Carolina State Senate

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