Lisa Grafstein represents Senate District 13 in Wake County. She was first elected in 2022. Senator Grafstein has been a civil rights lawyer since 1995, working on issues related to disability rights, health care access, voting rights, employment issues, and race and gender discrimination. She has been included in Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite and Best Lawyers in America and was named one of the top 50 women lawyers in North Carolina in 2011 by North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine. She has served as a Commissioner on the State Personnel Commission, and on the boards of several non-profits, including the North Carolina Justice Center and North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her law degree from UNC Chapel Hill.
