Sarah Stevens
Republican · NC
Sarah Stevens is a Mount Airy lawyer with more than 30 years in private practice. She served in the state House from 2009 to 2026, once as its second-ranking leader, and says judges should apply the law as written, not make new law.
Where Sarah Stevens stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Prime-sponsored Iryna’s Law, which tightened pretrial release rules for violent charges and expanded mental health screening. It became law.
October 3, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ncleg.gov
Track record — General
Track record — Legal Competence
Legal Competence · 2 favorable
Represented grandparents in Bennett v. Hawks, a child custody appeal that sent the case back for the trial court to apply the correct proof standard.
May 17, 2005Favorable on Legal Competence
Source: caselaw.findlaw.com
Represented a juvenile in In re Hull, an appeal that overturned an unsupported restitution order for property damage.
March 1, 1988Favorable on Legal Competence
Source: law.justia.com
Track record — Candidate Ethics
Candidate Ethics · 1 record
Received a State Board of Elections warning after her campaign took lobbyist donations while she was a legislator. The campaign refunded them; investigators found insufficient evidence of an intentional violation.
January 9, 2026
Source: newsobserver.com
Past race Sarah Stevens ran in:
- NC Supreme Court Associate Justice Seat 01 · November 3, 2026 · North Carolina