Pat Timmons-Goodson was born and raised in North Carolina, in a military family. After getting both her undergraduate and law degree from UNC at Chapel Hill, she went on to become a district attorney and later judge on North Carolina’s 12th judicial District Court and NC Court of Appeals. In 2006, she became the first African American woman to serve on North Carolina’s Supreme Court. She was also appointed to the US Commission on Civil Rights by President Obama, where she has worked tirelessly to combat discrimination under the law. She was nominated to serve on the US District Court, but was blocked by the GoP controlled Senate. 

She decided to run for office, and step away from the advocacy work she was doing, because she realized that in order to make real change there needed to be real legislation shifts.

If elected, Timmons-Goodson plans to fight for equal access to healthcare (especially in the aftermath of this pandemic), fight gun violence across the country, work to support working-class families and continue to fight for racial equality.