Cooper taps former commissioner Jessica Holmes as state auditor
Democrat Beth Wood's resignation takes effect Dec. 15. She'll soon be replaced by Holmes, who will seek a full four-year term in 2024.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday tapped Democrat Jessica Holmes to take over as state auditor starting Dec. 15.
Holmes is a deputy commissioner on the NC Industrial Commission, a former chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and unsuccessfully ran for labor commissioner in 2020. She now becomes North Carolina’s first Black woman to serve on the Council of State and said she’d run for a full four-year term in 2024.
“I’m here today not because I’m Black or not because I’m a woman, but because I’m the person to do the job and my credentials back that up,” Holmes said in a news conference.
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