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1. Recent decades · 1976–2026

2. 1987–2008
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Valerie Foushee works as an administrative officer for the Chapel Hill Police Department

   Foushee spent 21 years as an administrative officer with the Chapel Hill Police Department, from 1987 to 2008.

3. 1997–2004
   Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Valerie Foushee is elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board

   Foushee was elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools board in 1997 and served until 2004, pressing for equity in the schools. It was the first of the local offices she held over 25 years in local and state government.

4. 2004–2012
   Appointment, election or service · Orange County Valerie Foushee is elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners

   Foushee served on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2004 to 2012. Her official House biography says she was the first African American woman to chair the county commission.

5. 2008
   Life event · Chapel Hill Valerie Foushee finishes her UNC degree

   Foushee had left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after two years and returned later to finish, graduating in 2008 with a degree in political science and African and Afro-American studies. She was by then an Orange County commissioner.

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