Ya Liu is a first-term Democratic NC House Representative serving west Cary
and Morrisville. Representative Liu is the first and only Chinese American woman to have served in the NC General Assembly. Before serving in the NC House, she served on the Cary Town Council where she was the first Asian American to be elected to the Cary Town Council. 

Representative Liu earned her Ph.D. in sociology from NC State and her J.D. from NC Central. She lives in Cary with her husband and three children where she operates a small business.