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 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]
Political career
In 2015, Mayfield was elected to the Asheville City Council as a member of the Democratic Party.[2]
Mayfield announced her candidacy for state senate at the county Democratic Party's annual convention on March 23, 2019.[3] She won the Democratic Primary on March 3, 2020.[4][5] Mayfield went on to win the general on November 3, 2020 to represent the 49th Senate district.[6] She was sworn into office on January 1, 2021.[5] She sits on the Appropriations on Agriculture, Natural and Economic Resources Committee, the Senate State and Local Government Committee, and the Senate Transportation Committee.[7]
