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Guilford Democrats choose Tracy Clark to fill unexpired House 57 seat

Tracy Clark will fill the unexpired term in House 57 following the departure of Ashton Clemmons. Image courtesy of Tracy Clark.

Tracy Clark will fill the unexpired term in House 57 following the departure of Ashton Clemmons. Image courtesy of Tracy Clark.

The Guilford County Democratic Party has chosen Greensboro businesswoman Tracy Clark to fill the vacant North Carolina House District 57 seat.

Clark will fill out the unexpired term of Ashton Clemmons. During a virtual meeting to choose her successor, Clark said funding education is among her priorities.

“We must do more to support our public schools," she said. "And that starts with stopping the expansion of the opportunity vouchers and redirecting that money back into public school systems.”

In a separate vote, party leaders also picked Clark to take Clemmons’ place on the November ballot. She’ll face Republican Janice Davis.

Clemmons announced in July she was leaving before the end of her term to take a position with the University of North Carolina System.

The district was redrawn during Clemmons’ term. It had included much of Northwest Guilford running to the Rockingham County border. The 2024 lines place it mostly in mid-Guilford with Summerfield areas removed.

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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