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Seven of 43 elected DAs are women
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2008-12-17 17:28Only a handful of women are elected prosecutors in North Carolina.
According to the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys, seven out of 43 elected district attorneys in the state will be women next year, or a little over 16 percent.
Director Peg Dorer said the state didn't have a female elected prosecutor until Jean Powell won a campaign in the late 1980s, shortly before Dorer took her job.
"This is a high point," she said. "When I came on board in 1992, there was one female D.A. in the state and it remained that way for a while. We've just grown little by little over the years."
The female D.A.s next year will be Tracey Cline in Durham's District 14, Valerie Asbell in District 6B, Susan Doyle in District 11, Kristy Newton in District 16A, Roxann Vaneekhoven in 19A, Maureen Krueger in 19D and Sarah Kirkman in 22A.
The small number of district attorneys could be one reason why no women have served as state attorney general or secretaries of Crime Control, Correction or Juvenile Justice.
Local prosecutors are often a steppingstone for those jobs.
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