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
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.
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
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
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,”
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