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Alma Adams, a Democrat who has represented North Carolina's 12th congressional district since 2014, is seeking re-election in 2026 against Republican Jack Codiga, a financial executive.
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Alma Adams (D) represents North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District. In the NC-12 race highlighted, she faces Republican challenger Jack Codiga.
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BentzKurdianColby Watson is the Democratic candidate running in North Carolina House District 8 (NC-08), which includes a large portion of Mecklenburg County.
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Alma Adams (D) is the incumbent U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 12th District (Charlotte-centered). In 2024 she won reelection with about 74% of the vote.
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Alma Adams was born on May 27, 1946, in High Point, North Carolina, to Benjamin Shealey and Mattie Stokes, and was raised by her mother, who worked as a domestic worker.
The family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and then settled in Newark, New Jersey, where Adams graduated from West Side High School in 1964.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in 1969 and a Master of Science in 1972, both in art education, from North Carolina A&T State University, and a Ph.D. in art education and multicultural education from Ohio State University in 1981.
After her graduate studies, Adams chaired the art department at the Palmer Institute, and she later taught at Bennett College in Greensboro until 2012, where she also directed the Steel Hall Art Gallery. In 1990 she and artist Eva Hamlin Miller co-founded the African American Atelier.
She served on the Greensboro City School Board from 1984 to 1986 and on the Greensboro City Council from 1987 until 1994, when she was appointed to the North Carolina House of Representatives to fill the seat of Herman Gist, who had died in office.
She held that seat, later renumbered the 58th district, until her election to Congress, and chaired the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.
In 2014 Adams ran to succeed Mel Watt, who had been appointed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. She won both the special and regular Democratic primaries with about 44% of the vote, defeated Republican Vince Coakley in both general elections, and was sworn in on November 12, 2014.
Her committee assignments have included vice chair of the Committee on Agriculture and chair of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education and Labor, and she co-chairs the Black Maternal Health Caucus.
The 12th district includes portions of central Mecklenburg County. Adams, who was re-elected with 74.0% of the vote in 2024, won the 2026 Democratic primary with 78.9% against Monaca Johnson-Williamson, a teacher and sales marketing executive. In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Republican Jack Codiga, a financial executive who won his party's primary with 67.4% over Addul Ali, a former chair of the Cabarrus County Republican Party.
