ABOUT SENATOR GARSON
Jonah Garson serves as State Senator for North Carolina’s 23rd Senatorial District, encompassing all of Caswell, Orange, and Person counties.
An attorney in private practice and long-time organizer, Jonah was appointed by Governor Josh Stein to the North Carolina Senate on April 9th, 2026 and sworn-in by Justice Allison Riggs in a community ceremony on April 19th, 2026. He will be on the ballot this fall for election to his first full term.
Raised in Chapel Hill, Jonah is an alumnus of Chapel Hill High School (Class of 2005), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., English, 2009), and Columbia Law School (J.D., 2014). His mother, Nancy, is a psychotherapist. His father, Daniel, managed a rural health center in Prospect Hill (Caswell County) and worked at the North Carolina Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities before retirement. He has twin sisters, Anna (international education center director) and Meghan (a child-life specialist), a brother-in-law Todd (a veteran paramedic and current med school student), and a baby niece, Noa.
Garson worked for former N.C. Senate District 23 Senator Ellie Kinnaird, the late N.C. Rep. Paul Luebke, for the campaign of former N.C. House Speaker Joe Hackney, and for the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, before attending Columbia Law School, where he graduated in 2014 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. In his over 10 years of law practice, Garson has served in the Labor Bureau of the Office of the New York Attorney General, as a corporate attorney at an international law firm, and, for the past six years, as a litigator in state and federal court at the Orange County-based Parry firm representing businesses, individuals, nonprofits and state agencies in high-stakes civil litigation in state and federal court. Garson has been proud to represent state legislative witnesses in litigation over gerrymandering and voter ID laws, and to lead a number of voter protection efforts locally and statewide. He serves as volunteer counsel for E3 Camp, a free summer STEM enrichment camp for Black and brown students in Orange County, and recent recipient of the 36th Annual Pauli Murray Award in Orange County, North Carolina.
Outside of private law practice, Garson has served as First Vice Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party (2023-2026), Chair of the Orange Country Democratic Party, a Governor Cooper appointee to the North Carolina Education and Workforce Innovation Commission, a multi-term executive committee member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, and as a voter protection director.