---
type: Person
title: "Joyce Waddell"
description: "NC Senate District 40 — NC State Senate District 40"
role: "NC Senate District 40"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NC"
district: "NC State Senate District 40"
represents: "us/states/nc/districts/senate/40"
tenure:
  start: "2015-01-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "bf956873-16c9-41fd-96ee-78b1c0c50bee"
  office: "3585cc9a-af3a-443b-ba34-3003516da4f5"
  tenure: "8097d17b-832f-46fd-a97b-ed21b0a5ecf4"
  jurisdiction: "5ba25993-cadf-4112-9ad2-6364029b87a8"
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"
---

# Joyce Waddell

Current NC Senate District 40 (NC State Senate District 40).

Represents [NC State Senate District 40](/us/states/nc/districts/senate/40.md).

## Sources

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

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