Emails: jonah@jonahgarson.com (personal/campaign); jonah@ncdp.org (party)

Phone: 919.619.5467

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Jonah Garson (UNC ‘05, Columbia Law School ‘14) is an attorney, organizer, and former Democratic voter protection director from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

 

Garson is serving his second term as First Vice Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, a position he has held since 2023 when he, Chair Anderson Clayton, Dr. Kimberly Hardy, and were elected to leadership on a reform platform emphasizing year-round statewide organizing infrastructure (“Project 100”), concerted investment in appellate judicial races, and a proactive voter protection program. From virtually no Party staff or money in the bank, the party has grown since 2023 to become one of the largest in the country, one that is proud to have the muscle to fight and win some of the toughest fights at the in the field, at the ballot box, and in the courtroom (as, for instance, the litigation to defeat the GOP from overturning the election of Justice Allison Riggs to the North Carolina Supreme Court and disenfranchising over 68,000 North Carolina voters).

 

In addition to serving as First Vice Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party and DNC member, Garson currently serves on the Orange County Planning Board and as a member of the International Advisory Board of Carolina Performing Arts. Garson previously served as Chair of the Orange County Democratic Party; an Executive Committee Member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP; a member of the Carrboro Parks and Recreation Commission; a staffer for former Rep. Paul Luebke and Sen. Ellie Kinnaird; and as a Governor Cooper appointee to the Education and Workforce Innovation Commission. Prior to law school, Garson taught classical guitar for ten years as part of a private studio. 

 

Law Practice

 

Since 2018, Garson has practiced law at the Parry firm, a North Carolina-based litigation boutique, where he represents businesses, nonprofit organizations, individual client, and government agencies in federal court, state court, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings, as part a practice encompassing commercial litigation, election law, and other complex civil and administrative matters. While at Parry, Garson has worked on North Carolina’s photo ID litigation and redistricting litigation, as well as on former Chief Justice Cheri Beasley’s recount effort in 2022.

 

 Before joining Parry, Garson practiced at Milbank LLP, an international law firm and served as an Assistant Attorney General on Fellowship at the Labor Bureau of the Office of the New York Attorney General and as the Democratic Voter Protection Director for the 9th congressional district “redo” election (redone because of GOP absentee ballot fraud in southeastern North Carolina targeting Black and brown voters). Garson was the founding student director of the Columbia Law School Writing Center. Garson graduated from Columbia Law School in 2014 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.