Carolina Law started preparing Jessica Holmes '09 for her legal career before she was even a law student. As a junior studying political science at Chapel Hill, she had a work-study placement at the UNC Center for Civil Rights. There she worked with faculty prominent in the field who became...

RALEIGH -- We're barely into 2019, but candidates looking for 2020 election victories have already started campaigning. State Rep. Yvonne Holley, a Raleigh Democrat in her fourth term, is among the latest to announce she is running for lieutenant governor. She joins a host of candidates looking to fill the...

Last week, the riveting and explosive testimony at the State Board of Elections hearing on NC-09 sucked the wind out of all other political news. It threatened to do so again when former failed governor Pat McCrory started talking about the new election in the district. Instead of an announcement...

Jessica Holmes, who chairs the Wake County Board of Commissioners, announced her first run for statewide office Wednesday, a bid to unseat Republican Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry in 2020.  “I'm running to win, and I believe that workers deserve a better advocate,” Holmes told the INDY. “[Berry] has failed to be...

Wake County Commissioner chairwoman Jessica Holmes announced her candidacy for North Carolina Commissioner of Labor on Wednesday.  This will be the Wake County Democrat’s first time running for a statewide office.  “It is time for workers to have a champion,” Holmes said in a news release. “I am ready to...

When she was a high schooler in the tiny eastern North Carolina hamlet of Maple Hill, Jessica Holmes ’06 saw the UNC campus as beautiful and the students as superhuman. “They were who I aspired to be,” she said. A Carolina Covenant scholarship gave Jessica the chance to break through...