Valerie P. Foushee

Biography

FOUSHEE, Valerie, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Chapel Hill, Orange County, N.C., May 7, 1956; graduated from Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1974; B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2008; staff, Chapel Hill, N.C., police department, 1987-2008; member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City board of education, 1997-2004, chair, 2001-2003; member of the Orange County, N.C., board of commissioners, 2004-2012; chair, 2008-2010; member of the North Carolina state house of representatives, 2013; member of the North Carolina state senate, 2013-2022; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2023-present).