---
type: Person
title: "Gale Adcock"
description: "NC Senate District 16 — NC State Senate District 16"
role: "NC Senate District 16"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NC"
district: "NC State Senate District 16"
represents: "us/states/nc/districts/senate/16"
tenure:
  start: "2023-01-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "a1363a4f-e936-4a97-b8f9-b68725c770df"
  office: "12c3474f-c5da-4bad-b7fc-7356b36e0093"
  tenure: "fa15e083-5e27-4514-99fe-c0c01b803f11"
  jurisdiction: "135e5404-9f10-40e5-ac18-295084dc341b"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, nc]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Gale Adcock

Current NC Senate District 16 (NC State Senate District 16).

Represents [NC State Senate District 16](/us/states/nc/districts/senate/16.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).