Senator Mary Wills Bode Contact information

Mary Wills Bode is a member of the Democratic Party and represents Senate District 18 in the North Carolina General Assembly. The district is comprised of Northern Wake and Granville Counties.

She assumed office on January 1, 2023, and her current term ends on January 1, 2025. Before her tenure in the Senate, she had not served in the House. She was elected to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 18 and won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Born in Wake County, North Carolina, Bode currently resides in Granville County. She has a strong educational background, having earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Wake Forest University in 2010. She furthered her education by obtaining a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School in 2015.

Professionally, Bode is an attorney specializing in capital markets and leveraged finance. She has also served as a non-profit executive director, where she led a bipartisan coalition for redistricting reform. In addition to her legal and non-profit work, Bode became a commissioner on the North Carolina Real Estate Commission in 2020.

During the 2023-2024 session, Bode was assigned to several committees, including the Appropriations on General Government and Information Technology Committee, Pensions and Retirement and Aging Committee, Senate State and Local Government Committee, and Senate Transportation Committee.

Bode’s base salary as a senator is $13,951 per year, and she also receives a per diem of $104 per day. Her official mailing address is 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 515, Raleigh, NC 27603. She can be reached via her office phone at (919) 733-5850 or via email at MaryWills.Bode@ncleg.gov. Her legislative assistant is Coleen Miller Esri.