North Carolina State Senate District 23

Valerie Foushee first joined the legislature after her 2012 House campaign in District 50. Representing rural Orange and Durham counties, Foushee has advocated for bipartisan reform of education-funding policy to ensure transparency and appropriate funding for all school districts. Foushee is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and African and Afro-American Studies. She also is a 2005 Leadership Triangle Goodman Fellow. After 21 years of service, Foushee retired from the Chapel Hill Police Department where she supervised two units and administered an $11 million budget.