title: Cheri Beasley
text: Cheri Lynn Beasley (born February 14, 1966) is an American attorney and jurist. She was the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020. She was on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a district court judge in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
  
  She was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in the 2022 election.
  
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  1966 births
  Living people
  Women judges from the United States
  Lawyers from Chicago
  Politicians from Chicago
  Politicians from North Carolina
  US Democratic Party politicians
  Lawyers from North Carolina