Tamara P. Barringer | |
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Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
Assumed office January 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Mark A. Davis |
Member of the
North Carolina Senate from the 17th district | |
In office October 4, 2012 [1] – January 1, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Richard Stevens |
Succeeded by | Sam Searcy |
Personal details | |
Born | [2] | December 1, 1958
Political party | Republican |
Alma mater | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ( BS, JD) |
Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
Tamara Patterson Barringer (born December 1, 1958) [3] is an American lawyer and judge. She is an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was a Republican state senator from North Carolina's 17th district for six years.
She received her Bachelor of Science in business administration and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Barringer ran in the 2012 election for the North Carolina Senate. She defeated Erv Portman (D) in the November 2012 general election. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Tamara P. Barringer | 57,101 | 53.67% | |
Democratic | Erv Portman | 49,298 | 46.33% |
In the November 2018 general election, she lost to Sam Searcy by a margin of 50 percent to 47 percent. [5]
Barringer ran for the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2020 against incumbent Mark A. Davis. [6] She won the election in November 2020. [7]