Wayne Goodwin Politician

George Wayne Goodwin was elected North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance in the 2008 election and re-elected in 2012. Goodwin previously served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-eighth House district, including constituents in Richmond and Stanly counties. His prior district — the 32nd House district — also included Scotland and Montgomery Counties.An attorney from Hamlet, North Carolina, Goodwin was a Morehead Scholar and US Senate/William Randolph Hearst'>William Randolph Hearst Scholar. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with honors in Political Science, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and then went on to graduate from the UNC School of Law.