Alma S. Adams

Democrat · NC-12 · U.S. House

Bio

Alma Shealey Adams is an American politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Adams represented the state's 58th House district in Guilford County in the North Carolina General Assembly from her appointment in April 1994 until her election to Congress, succeeded by Ralph C. Johnson.

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Record of service

In office: 11.8 years
First took office: 2014 (7 terms)
Seniority: 124 of 437 by time served
Age: 80

District offices

Charlotte, NC · 704-344-9950

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$408k

2020

$408k

2021

$408k

2022

$408k

2023

$408k

2024

$408k

2025

$408k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $265k – $550k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $265k – $550k
Since 2019: +$0

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 assets reported

TIAA-CREF Annuity Account$250k – $500k

North Carolina Legislative Retirement System Plan$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.61

Healthcare

D+0.77

Immigration & Border

D+0.85

Guns

D+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.99

Environment & Energy

D+0.87

Crime & Policing

D+0.41

Defense & Veterans

D+0.13

Economy & Labor

D+0.59

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.17

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.88

Education

D+0.69

Government & Democracy

D+0.84

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Alma S. Adams's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Alma S. Adams (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Adamssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Adams's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.