Julie Mayfield was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 2020, representing District 49. Before that, she served five years on Asheville’s City Council where she led council’s work on transportation, the environment, and clean energy. She chaired two council committees and served on or was a liaison to multiple boards and commissions. She is also the co-director of MountainTrue, a regional environmental advocacy organization. She has served on and/or chaired numerous boards, including Asheville’s Multi-Modal Commission and Transit Committee, North Carolina’s Mountain Resources Commission, the WNC Chapter of the ACLU, Working Wheels, the Environmental Quality Institute, and the North Carolina Conservation Network. Prior to moving to Asheville and MountainTrue in 2008, she worked for several years as an environmental attorney and policy advocate in Georgia. She is a graduate of Davidson College and Emory University School of Law.