Julie von Haefen has a bachelor's degree from Ohio University and a graduate degree from Case Western Reserve University. She and her husband, Dr. Roger von Haefen, have three children.

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Julie is an attorney. She practiced law for 10 years in a variety of areas, including criminal law, medical malpractice defense, municipal law, and education law. She also works as a substitute teacher with Wake County Public Schools. Julie is a certified Guardian ad Litem in Wake County. She previously served as the state advocacy chair and federal legislative chair for the North Carolina Parent Teacher Association (PTA).

Julie is currently a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 36. She was first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Supports increasing funding for vocational training in high schools and community colleges.

Supports providing down-payment assistance to first-time home buyers.

Supports environmental conservation, believing that a healthy environment is crucial for the economy, saying, "From farming, to logging, to fishing, and more - millions of North Carolinians rely on our environment to make a living."

- Supports raising the minimum wage.
- Supports increasing funding for vocational training in high schools and community colleges.
- Supports providing down-payment assistance to first-time home buyers.
- Supports environmental conservation, believing that a healthy environment is crucial for the economy, saying, "From farming, to logging, to fishing, and more - millions of North Carolinians rely on our environment to make a living."

Economy

Supports long-term solutions for sustainable resource-based jobs, like reforestation-focused logging, water quality control, and tax incentives for responsible waste disposal in North Carolina businesses.

Said, "I believe that climate change is real and that we must take serious steps to counter its effects."

Supports blocking fracking and offshore drilling.

Supports holding corporations accountable for environmental damage, saying "Corporations should pay to clean up their own mess, not the tax payers."

- Supports long-term solutions for sustainable resource-based jobs, like reforestation-focused logging, water quality control, and tax incentives for responsible waste disposal in North Carolina businesses.
- Said, "I believe that climate change is real and that we must take serious steps to counter its effects."
- Supports blocking fracking and offshore drilling.
- Supports holding corporations accountable for environmental damage, saying "Corporations should pay to clean up their own mess, not the tax payers."

Energy & the Environment

Supports Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act to lower out-of-pocket costs, increase coverage, support rural hospitals, and create jobs in healthcare.

Opposes limits on abortion access, calling it "healthcare" and opposing state interference in healthcare access. Plans to fight against restrictions on bodily autonomy and reproductive rights and work to expand abortion access in North Carolina.

Supports the legalization of recreational and medical marijuana.

- Supports Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act to lower out-of-pocket costs, increase coverage, support rural hospitals, and create jobs in healthcare.
- Opposes limits on abortion access, calling it "healthcare" and opposing state interference in healthcare access. Plans to fight against restrictions on bodily autonomy and reproductive rights and work to expand abortion access in North Carolina.
- Supports the legalization of recreational and medical marijuana.

Healthcare

Voting & Elections

Supports "common-sense" gun reforms, including safe storage legislation, closing the gun-show loophole, and banning ghost guns.

- Supports "common-sense" gun reforms, including safe storage legislation, closing the gun-show loophole, and banning ghost guns.

Public Safety

Advocates for restoring respect for educators by increasing overall teacher pay, reinstating pay scales that reward advanced degrees and experience, and ending test-score-based pay incentives.

Filed legislation to fully fund the Leandro decision, which would fulfill the state's constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to all students.

- Advocates for restoring respect for educators by increasing overall teacher pay, reinstating pay scales that reward advanced degrees and experience, and ending test-score-based pay incentives.
- Filed legislation to fully fund the Leandro decision, which would fulfill the state's constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to all students.

Education

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