Alumni in Government

UNC Charlotte is proud of alumni representing North Carolina and thankful for their service.

Are you a UNC Charlotte graduate serving in public office? We want to know! Please contact Betty Doster (Special Assistant to the Chancellor for External Relations and Partnerships) at betty.doster@charlotte.edu.

Senator Ted Alexander (R)

(Cleveland)

B.A., Political Science | 1982

Rep. Dean Arp (R)

(Union)

M.S., Civil Engineering | 1999

Rep. Mary Belk (D)

(Mecklenburg)

B.A., Political Science | 2006

Rep. Cecil Brockman (D)

(Guilford)

B.A., Political Science | 2006

Rep. Terry Brown (D)

(Mecklenburg County)

B.A., Political Science | 2009

Judge Jeff Carpenter (R)

(Seat 7, NC Court of Appeals)

B.A., Political Science | 1994

Rep. Tricia Cotham (R)

(Mecklenburg, District 112)

B.A., History | 2001

Senator David W. Craven, Jr. (R)

(Randolph and Guilford)

B.A., Political Science, B.S., Business Administration and Accounting | 2012

Rep. Kevin Crutchfield (R)

(Cabarrus, Rowan)

George Dunlap (D)

(Mecklenburg County Commission)

B.S., Criminal Justice and MPA | 1991, 2003

Judge Fred Gore (R)

(Seat 5, NC Court of Appeals)

B.S., Business Administration, Marketing | 1998

Rep. Kelly Hastings (R)

(Cleveland, Gaston)

Teaching Certificate | 2009

Congressman Richard Hudson (R)

(District 8)

B.A., History | 1996

Rep. Jake Johnson (R)

(Henderson, Polk, Transylvania)

B.A., Political Science | 2016

Joey Lemons

(Sheriff of Stokes County)

B.A., History | 2010

Senator Mujtaba Mohammed (D) 

(Mecklenburg)

B.A., History | 2008

Marjorie Molina (D)

(Charlotte City Council, District 5)

M.S., Management | 2022

Susan Rodriguez-McDowell (D)

(Mecklenburg County Commission)

B.A., Fine Arts | 1993

Senator DeAndrea Salvador (D)

(Mecklenburg County)

B.S., Economics | 2013

Senator Vickie Sawyer (R) 

(Iredell)

B.A., Special Education |1997

Senator Joyce Waddell (D)

(Mecklenburg)

M.A., Education | 1973

Victoria Watlington (D)

(Charlotte City Council, District 3)

M.S., Engineering Management | 2013