Buck Newton
RepublicanIncumbent
- In office now
- State Senator, District 4
- Work
- Attorney, Newton & Lee, PLLC; state senator
Buck Newton is the sitting State Senator for District 4 in the North Carolina General Assembly, a district that includes all or part of Greene, Wayne and Wilson counties; the member page lists 5 terms in the Senate.
Buck Newton is an attorney at Newton & Lee, PLLC and previously was a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Jesse Helms on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Buck Newton was first elected to the North Carolina Senate in 2010 and ran for state attorney general in 2016.
Newton's committees
- Agriculture, Energy, and Environment
- Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety (Chairman)
- Education/Higher Education
- Finance (Chairman)
- Judiciary (Chairman)
- Select Committee on Property Tax Reform (Chairman)
- Transportation
- Legislative Ethics Committee
- Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations
- Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety (Vice Chair)
- Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee
- Joint Legislative Commission on Energy Policy (Vice Chair)
- Joint Legislative Emergency Management Oversight Committee
- Governmental Operations, Subcommittee on Prisons (Co-Chair)
Sources for Newton
- Buck Newton: official member information (North Carolina General Assembly, Public record)
- North Carolina General Assembly: committee information (North Carolina General Assembly, Public record)
- North Carolina General Assembly: current member roster (North Carolina General Assembly, Public record)
- Buck Newton candidate profile (BallotReady, Facts summarized from a public page (not copied))
- Buck Newton candidate profile (Branch, Facts summarized from a public page (not copied))