Ada Fisher
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| Ada Fisher | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of North Carolina |
| Role: | National committeewoman |
| Location: | Salisbury, N.C. |
| Education: | •University of North Carolina at Greensboro •University of Wisconsin-Madison •Johns Hopkins University |
| Website: | Official website |
Ada Fisher is the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of North Carolina. She is the first black woman to be elected as a national committeewoman to the Republican National Committee (RNC). She is a retired physician in Salisbury, North Carolina.[1]
Career
Fisher received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an M.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her residency training in family medicine at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. Fisher later earned an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.[2][3]
Prior to her retirement, Fisher served the medical community in a number of positions. She worked as an occupational health services consultant and served as the chief of occupational health services at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina. She also worked as the medical director for Amoco Oil Company, an industrial physician at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the substance abuse detoxification director at John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina, an independent medical examiner, and a member of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in the medically underserved community of Greenevers, North Carolina.[2][3]
Fisher is also a licensed secondary math and science teacher. She volunteered through the Rowan Salisbury Community Action Agency's Workforce Investment Act Program as a tutor and mentor for students who failed to complete high school. In addition, Fisher is the author of Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions: Solutions For What Ails Us, a commentary on societal challenges and conservative principles drawn from a physician's analytical perspective. She also compiled "A Short History of African Americans in the North Carolina Republican Party," a 32-page history that chronicles black engagement in the Republican Party of North Carolina since Reconstruction.[2][3][4]
Political activity
Fisher has been involved in the Republican Party of North Carolina (NCGOP) for more than forty years. She is also a member of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women.[2][5]
Fisher campaigned as a Republican for the United States Senate from North Carolina in 2002. She later campaigned for North Carolina's 12th Congressional District in 2004 and 2006 and for North Carolina House of Representatives District 77 in 2008.[2]
Fisher is the first black woman to be elected as a national committeewoman to the Republican National Committee. She was elected to a four-year term as the national committeewoman for the NCGOP in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012. She won re-election again in 2016 by three votes against tea party challenger Miriam Chu.[2][6]
In 2012, Fisher served as a member of the Black Leadership Council and the Women for Mitt Advisory Board during former Republican nominee Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. She was named to the North Carolina Black Advisory Board, a joint community outreach venture of the RNC and NCGOP, in 2014. "An engagement strategy which is inclusive of age, gender, occupational considerations, regional diversity and county needs will help the RNC, the state party and other communities throughout the state significantly grow the party, win the future and better lead this state and nation," Fisher stated in a press release.[2][7]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
| Ada Fisher | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | RNC Delegate |
| State: | North Carolina |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
Fisher was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from North Carolina.[8] In the North Carolina Republican primary election on March 15, 2016, Donald Trump won 29 delegates, Ted Cruz won 27 delegates, John Kasich won nine, and Marco Rubio won six. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Fisher was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how North Carolina’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[9]
Delegate rules
Delegates from North Carolina to the Republican National Convention were elected at congressional district conventions and the state convention in May. Delegates from North Carolina were required by state party rules to declare themselves in public "as a representative of a Candidate on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot" prior to their election as a delegate. At-large delegates were required to list their top three presidential candidates in order of preference and indicate whether they would be willing to commit to a candidate whom they do not personally favor.
North Carolina primary results
| North Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
40.2% | 462,413 | 29 | |
| Ted Cruz | 36.8% | 422,621 | 27 | |
| John Kasich | 12.7% | 145,659 | 9 | |
| Marco Rubio | 7.7% | 88,907 | 6 | |
| Ben Carson | 1% | 11,019 | 1 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.3% | 3,893 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.3% | 3,071 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,753 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,256 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 929 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 663 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 265 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.5% | 6,081 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,149,530 | 72 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and North Carolina Board of Elections | ||||
Delegate allocation
North Carolina had 72 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 39 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 13 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally according to the statewide vote.[10][11]
Of the remaining 33 delegates, 30 served at large. North Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis according to the statewide primary vote. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[10][11]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "North Carolina Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Republican National Committee, "Ada Fisher," accessed May 10, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Amazon.com, "Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions: Solutions For What Ails Us," accessed May 10, 2016
- ↑ Charlotte Observer, "NC GOP has black leaders, not many followers," January 5, 2016
- ↑ Jones & Blount, "N.C. GOP votes “no confidence” in chairman, begins removal process," March 21, 2016
- ↑ The News and Observer, "The Latest: Brody to join RNC, Fisher holds on to post," May 7, 2016
- ↑ P2016, "RNC announces North Carolina Black Advisory Board," June 19, 2014
- ↑ NC GOP, "ICYMI: NCGOP 2016 State Convention Recap," accessed June 16, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016