Jack Nichols | |
Honorific Prefix: | Representative |
State House: | North Carolina |
State: | North Carolina |
District: | 34th |
Predecessor: | Grier Martin |
Successor: | Tim Longest |
Term Start: | July 15, 2022 |
Term End: | January 1, 2023 |
Birth Name: | M. Jackson Nichols |
Birth Place: | Quantico, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Davidson College (BS) Duke University (MA) Wake Forest University (JD) |
Occupation: | Attorney |
Party: | Democratic |
Residence: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
M. Jackson "Jack" Nichols is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2022 to 2023.[1] An attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina, he represented the 34th district (including constituents in Wake County).[2]
Nichols ran unsuccessfully for the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2000, losing to Republican incumbent Art Pope. Nichols also ran unsuccessfully for the North Carolina Senate in 2004 and 2008. Representative Grier Martin resigned his seat in the NC House on July 8, 2022 to take a job at the pentagon, and local Democrats selected Nichols to serve the balance of Martin's term. Nichols will not be a candidate for the seat in the 2022 election.