Senator Mary Wills Bode represents Senate District 18, which is comprised of Northern Wake and Granville Counties. She is an attorney, specializing in capital markets and leveraged finance, and has also been a non-profit executive director, where she led a bipartisan coalition for redistricting reform. She previously served as a member of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, appointed by Governor Roy Cooper to represent members of the public. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.