History & Achievements
Cynthia L. Wallace serves as Vice President, Credit Acquisition Governance Leader in the Financial Services industry and has over 25 years in financial services including federal regulatory compliance and risk management.
Wallace received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She also earned a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL.
Active in numerous business and civic organizations, Wallace is the 2nd-term Chair of North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District Democrats. Her congressional district leadership includes Southeast Mecklenburg County, Union County, Anson County, Richmond County, Robeson County Scotland County, and parts of Bladen and Cumberland Counties. With her executive board, Wallace has implemented, with great success, an 8-county strategy embracing 5 pillars - GOTV, fundraising, communications & marketing, social media, and training. She and her team has closed the Congressional margin to two percent.
Under Wallace’s leadership, 9th Congressional District Dems has expanded all 8 county committees’ political and social media presence. Her team supported the run of a democratic candidate in every NC House & Senate Race in the 9th District, flipping one (1) NC Senate seat and three (3) NC House seats. She fervently embraces rural, small town America, traveling on 2 rural county listening tours with North Carolina’s Democratic State Chair, Wayne Goodwin in 2018 and 2019.
The granddaughter of farmers, Wallace grew up in Springfield, Georgia, a small town with a rural route address … no street address. She is the daughter of Mary T. Wallace and the late Homer Lee Wallace, the first African-American county commissioner elected in the history of Effingham County in Georgia, serving from 1985-2002. He was also co-founder of his local NAACP in the turbulent 1960s. It is from her father where she inherited her political genes.
Wallace resides in Charlotte, North Carolina in the 9th Congressional District.
Wallace received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She also earned a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL.
Active in numerous business and civic organizations, Wallace is the 2nd-term Chair of North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District Democrats. Her congressional district leadership includes Southeast Mecklenburg County, Union County, Anson County, Richmond County, Robeson County Scotland County, and parts of Bladen and Cumberland Counties. With her executive board, Wallace has implemented, with great success, an 8-county strategy embracing 5 pillars - GOTV, fundraising, communications & marketing, social media, and training. She and her team has closed the Congressional margin to two percent.
Under Wallace’s leadership, 9th Congressional District Dems has expanded all 8 county committees’ political and social media presence. Her team supported the run of a democratic candidate in every NC House & Senate Race in the 9th District, flipping one (1) NC Senate seat and three (3) NC House seats. She fervently embraces rural, small town America, traveling on 2 rural county listening tours with North Carolina’s Democratic State Chair, Wayne Goodwin in 2018 and 2019.
The granddaughter of farmers, Wallace grew up in Springfield, Georgia, a small town with a rural route address … no street address. She is the daughter of Mary T. Wallace and the late Homer Lee Wallace, the first African-American county commissioner elected in the history of Effingham County in Georgia, serving from 1985-2002. He was also co-founder of his local NAACP in the turbulent 1960s. It is from her father where she inherited her political genes.
Wallace resides in Charlotte, North Carolina in the 9th Congressional District.