Julie Mayfield | |
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| Member of the North Carolina Senate from the 49th district | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Terry Van Duyn |
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| Born | April 5,1967 Atlanta,Georgia,United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Emory University School of Law (JD) Davidson College (BA) |
Julie Virginia Mayfield (born April 5,1967) is an American attorney and politician serving as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from the 49th district.
Mayfield was born in Atlanta,Georgia. She graduated from Northside High School,then Davidson College with a Bachelor of Arts in religion,and earned her Juris Doctor from the Emory University School of Law. [1]
Mayfield worked as an Intern/Death Penalty Program Assistant at Amnesty International USA between 1989 and 1991. She was a program assistant at the Atlanta Community Food Bank between 1992 and 1993. [1] In 1993,she worked as an intern at the Georgia Justice Project. Mayfield was an associate of Kilpatrick Stockton Limited Liability Partnership between 1996 and 1999. In 1999,she worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge Robert Castellani. She was a director at the Turner Environmental Law Clinic at the Emory University School of Law between 1999 and 2003. [1]
Mayfield was Vice President/General Counsel of the Georgia Conservancy between 2003 and 2008. Since 2008,she has been executive director of MountainTrue. [1]
In 2015,Mayfield was elected to the Asheville City Council as a member of the Democratic Party. [2]
Mayfield announced her candidacy for state senate at the county Democratic Party's annual convention on March 23,2019. [3] She won the Democratic Primary on March 3,2020. [4] [5] Mayfield went on to win the general on November 3,2020 to represent the 49th Senate district. [6] She was sworn into office on January 1,2021. [5] She sits on the Appropriations on Agriculture,Natural and Economic Resources Committee,the Senate State and Local Government Committee,and the Senate Transportation Committee. [7]
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