Deborah Ross

Deborah Ross grew up with an Air Force veteran for a father and an early childhood educator for a mother.¹ Law school at the University of North Carolina brought her to the state, and she now lives in Raleigh with her husband, Steve Wrinn, and their dog, Wylie.²

Before Congress, she practiced constitutional, infrastructure and renewable energy law and led North Carolina's American Civil Liberties Union beginning in 1994.³ Her civil rights work included juvenile justice reform and efforts to collect information about racial profiling in traffic stops.³ Elected to the state House in 2002, she served as majority and minority whip and chaired its Judiciary, Ethics and Election Laws committees.¹

She entered Congress in 2021 and serves on the Judiciary and Science, Space and Technology committees.¹ Ross helped lead the House legislation behind the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, enacted in May 2022.⁴ The law requires public online access to federal judges' financial disclosures and periodic reporting of securities transactions.⁵

Her priorities include lowering prescription costs, protecting Social Security and improving transportation infrastructure.² She also proposes stronger protections for young athletes and children of long term visa holders facing the loss of their legal immigration status.¹ She faces Republican Eugene Douglass.⁶