Gale Adcock

Gale Adcock was raised in southwestern Virginia. She earned a nursing diploma from Virginia Baptist Hospital, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University in 1978, and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987. Adcock has been a family nurse practitioner since 1987 and was the Chief Health Officer at SAS Institute for over 26 years before retiring in October 2020. Her political career began on the Cary Town Council, where she served from 2007 to 2014. She was then elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives for District 41, serving from 2015 to 2023. In January 2023, she assumed office as the State Senator for District 16. Adcock has also served as president of the North Carolina Nurses Association and chair of the North Carolina Center for Nursing.