THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Bertha “B” Holt

August 16, 1916 – June 18, 2010

“When I speak to people, especially women, I tell them that if you don’t get with politics, you are just plain out of it.”

Attorney who represented Alamance and Rockingham counties in the North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993. A founding member of the Alamance Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Resource Center in Alamance County. Sponsored legislation championing North Carolina’s failed attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Led the successful effort to remove the exemption of husbands from North Carolina’s rape laws.