After graduating from Wake Forest University School of Law, I built my life and family here. My wife, Joanna, is a proud North Carolina State graduate. We are blessed to raise our two daughters in the same community with the same people who shaped me.

During law school – at Wake Forest University – I worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby. After graduating, I became a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern North Carolina. For seven and a half years, I worked with numerous sheriffs and police departments to prosecute and convict drug cartels, gangs, human traffickers, and criminal illegal immigrants.

As I traveled eastern North Carolina, working on investigations and preparing for trials, I saw the devastating harm serious crime does to our communities. Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s open border policies allowed a catastrophic flow of crime that still wreaks havoc across our state and country. The laws need to be stronger and more rigid to protect law-abiding Americans. I believe when an illegal immigrant commits a felony, they should be sent to prison for a minimum of five years and then deported. We have to increase penalties to deter the flood of illegal immigrants.

I resigned as a federal prosecutor to first run for Congress in the 13th Congressional District in North Carolina in 2024. 

Together, we’ve made progress, but we must sustain that new approach in Washington or risk a return to the broken policies that devastated our economy and individuals. That’s why I’m running for re-election – to keep building a safer, stronger, and more prosperous North Carolina for all of us.