Tamara Barringer, a Cary attorney and a Republican, announced Friday she will seek to fill the state Senate seat that will become vacant when Richard Stevens retires.
Barringer, a long-time friend of Stevens and an adjunct business law and ethics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, coordinated her email announcement with Stevens' announcement.
“I hope you will support me in continuing this tradition of great legislative service to our area and our state,” Barringer wrote. “I plan to do this utilizing my business and legal education, over 20 years experience managing our family's law firm and several other business interests, and all (the)while drawing upon the great knowledge and opportunities I have through almost 20 years of teaching undergraduate and masters students as an adjunct professor of business law and ethics at North Carolina State University, Meredith College, and for the past 7 years, a the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.”
She praised Stevens' reocrd in helping “stop the runaway spending spree that Governor Perdue led in her first two years in office.”
Her husband Brent Barringer has been a stalwart in Wake County Republican politics and is a member of the UNC Board of Governors.
