Julie Mayfield
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Julie Mayfield | |
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| Member of the North Carolina Senate from the 49th district | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Terry Van Duyn |
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| Born | April 5, 1967 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Emory University School of Law (JD) Davidson College (BA) |
Julie Virginia Mayfield (born April 5, 1967) is an American attorney and politician serving as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from the 49th district.
Mayfield was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Northside High School, then Davidson College with a Bachelor of Arts in religion, and earned her Juris Doctor from the Emory University School of Law.[1]
Career
Mayfield worked as an Intern/Death Penalty Program Assistant at Amnesty International USA between 1989 and 1991. She was a program assistant at the Atlanta Community Food Bank between 1992 and 1993.[1] In 1993, she worked as an intern at the Georgia Justice Project. Mayfield was an associate of Kilpatrick Stockton Limited Liability Partnership between 1996 and 1999. In 1999, she worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge Robert Castellani. She was a director at the Turner Environmental Law Clinic at the Emory University School of Law between 1999 and 2003.[1]
Mayfield was Vice President/General Counsel of the Georgia Conservancy between 2003 and 2008. Since 2008, she has been executive director of MountainTrue.[1]