Carrboro mayor Foushee confirms re-election bid
Carrboro mayor Barbara Foushee – the first African-American female mayor in the town’s history – confirmed to The Local Reporter Thursday afternoon her plans to run for re-election in this fall’s municipal election. Foushee won her first term as Carrboro’s mayor in November 2023 for a two-year term that expires this December.
Foushee first entered the local political arena back in 2017, when she was elected to a four-year term on the Carrboro Town Council. She was re-elected in 2021, but then decided in the spring of 2023 to run for mayor of Carrboro after former mayor Damon Seils chose not to seek re-election. Foushee ran unopposed on her way to victory that November.
Along with her service on the Carrboro Town Council and serving the past year and a half as the town’s mayor, Foushee has also served on numerous local boards, including the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Board of Directors, the Town of Carrboro Human Services Advisory Board, and as a liaison to numerous boards including the Affordable Housing Advisory Commission and the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness, of which she currently serves as Chair.
In 2017 – the year she was first elected to the Carrboro Town Council – Foushee was recognized by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP chapter with its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. In 2021, the year of her re-election to the local municipal board, she was honored by Chapel Hill Magazine as a Woman of Achievement. Foushee’s husband, Mr. Braxton D. Foushee, has also been heavily involved in local politics, having served as the first African-American alderman for the Town of Carrboro.
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