Josh Stein

Joshua Harold Stein (born September 13, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 76th governor of North Carolina since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Stein served as the 51st attorney general of North Carolina from 2017 to 2025 and in the North Carolina Senate from 2009 to 2016. Having served two terms as state attorney general, Stein chose not to seek a third term and instead ran for governor in the 2024 election. After winning the Democratic nomination, he defeated Republican nominee Mark Robinson in the general election by 14.82 percentage points in a year when the Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, won by 3.2 points. He is North Carolina's first Jewish governor. Stein won the Democratic nomination in the 2016 North Carolina Attorney General election, in which he defeated Republican nominee Buck Newton by 0.54 points. He was reelected in 2020, narrowly defeating Republican nominee Jim O'Neill by 0.26 points. Before serving as Attorney General, he represented North Carolina's 16th Senate district in 2008.