Tamara Patterson Barringer (born December 1, 1958) is an American lawyer and judge. She is an associate justice of the

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. She was a

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state senator from

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's 17th district for six years. She received her

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in business administration and her Juris Doctor from the

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Election results

Barringer ran in the 2012 election for the North Carolina Senate. She defeated Erv Portman (D) in the November 2012 general election. In the November 2018 general election, she lost to

Sam Searcy Samuel Lee Searcy is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 17th Senate district from 2019 until his resignation in 2020. Career Searcy defeated Tamara Barringer on N ...

by a margin of 50 percent to 47 percent. Barringer ran for the

in 2020 against incumbent Mark A. Davis. She won the election in November 2020.

Awards

* 2015 Champion for Children Award. Presented by Children’s Hope Alliance and Benchmarks.

References

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Barringer, Tamara P. Living people 21st-century American judges 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court Women state legislators in North Carolina Democratic Party North Carolina state senators UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School alumni University of North Carolina School of Law alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty North Carolina State University faculty 21st-century American women judges American women academics 1958 births