Tim Moore
Tim Moore, a Republican who served as speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2025 and has represented the 14th congressional district since 2025, faces Democrat Lakesha Womack in 2026.
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- Born
- October 2, 1970
- Birthplace
- Kings Mountain, North Carolina
- Education
- Kings Mountain High School
Campbell College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., 1992)
Oklahoma City University School of Law (1995)
Biography & Campaign Analysis
Background
Tim Moore was born on October 2, 1970, in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. He attended Kings Mountain High School and, as a teenager, worked as a page at the state General Assembly. He studied at Campbell College for two years before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed a B.A. in 1992, and he graduated from the Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1995. He has two sons.
Career
Moore joined a law firm in Shelby in 1995 and opened his own practice in Kings Mountain in 2009. In 1997 he was elected chair of the Cleveland County Republican Party and appointed to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
He won a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2002 by defeating the House Majority Whip, Democrat Andy Dedmon, and went on to represent the 111th district, which includes Cleveland County.
After Republicans won control of the House in 2010, Speaker Thom Tillis named him chairman of the Rules Committee. Moore was elected speaker in 2015 and held the post until 2025; as speaker he sponsored House Bill 2 in 2016 and created a House Select Committee on School Safety in 2018.
Moore announced a campaign for the newly drawn 14th congressional district in late 2023, defeated Democrat Pam Genant and was sworn in on January 3, 2025, succeeding Jeff Jackson. He serves on the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Financial Services, where he is vice chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. In June 2025 he failed to report stock purchases as required by the disclosure provisions of the STOCK Act.
2026 race
The 14th district includes all of Burke, Cleveland, Gaston and Rutherford counties, as well as portions of Mecklenburg and Polk counties. Moore flipped the district in 2024 with 58.1% of the vote and won the 2026 Republican primary with 83.0% against Kate Barr, a behavioral specialist. In the general election on November 3, 2026, he faces Democrat Lakesha Womack, a business consultant who won her party's primary with 52.2% over attorney Brent Caldwell.