Representative Debra Conrad Won’t Seek NC House Seat

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published November 27, 2019 at 4:11 PM EST

State Representative Debra Conrad of Forsyth County has decided not to run for re-election next year.

Conrad is well known to Forsyth County voters. She's currently serving a fourth term representing the 74th District in the House after working for almost two decades as a county commissioner.

Last year Conrad defeated her Democratic opponent by a 10 percent margin. Redistricting will likely make the 74th more competitive in 2020. She has endorsed fellow Republican Jeff Zenger, a Lewisville council member, for her seat in next year's election.

Conrad says in a news release that she will “seek new opportunities in business and politics.”

Candidate filing begins Monday.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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