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Press Release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Carol Teal-(919) 834-9008
March 20, 2008
Lillian’s List announces Endorsement of two Incumbent Senators
who face Primary Opposition on May 6, 2008
Raleigh, NC – This is the latest announcement in a series of announcements about endorsed candidates.
Senator Katie Dorsett, Senate District 28, (Guilford) is challenged in the primary for re-election. Senator Dorsett lives in Greensboro with her husband, Warren. She is the Senate Majority Whip and Chair of the Appropriations on General Government and Information Technology Committee. Prior to her services in the NC Senate, she was the first African-American woman to hold a state cabinet post in North Carolina, as Secretary of Administration.
Senator Ellie Kinnaird, Senate District 23, (Orange and Person) is challenged in the primary and general election. Senator Kinnaird lives in Carrboro where she served four terms as Mayor. She is Chair of both the Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety and the Mental Health/Youth Services Committees. She was a legal services lawyer and is now in private practice.
Lillian’s List of NC proudly endorses these NC Senators who continue to serve the state of North Carolina with distinction. We will recommend them to our statewide membership for support. After the primary on May 6, 2008 we will announce the endorsement of other incumbent Democratic women who face opposition in the general election.
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Named for Lillian Exum Clement, the first woman elected to the General Assembly in North Carolina, as well as the first woman elected to any state legislature in the South, Lillian’s List is an independent political committee working to elect pro-choice, Democratic women to the General Assembly in North Carolina. Organized in 1997, Lillian’s List has now helped elect a total of 19 new Democratic women legislators when they ran the first time.
A Buncombe County lawyer, Lillian Exum Clement defeated two men in 1920 before the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. The day she was sworn in, Clement told a reporter from the Raleigh News & Observer, “I want to blaze a trail for other women. I know that years from now there will be many other women in politics, but you have to start a thing.”
Past Press Releases
Lillian's List announces Endorsement of three more New 2008 Candidates
Lillian’s List announces Endorsement of first three 2008 Candidates
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