Jimmie Cochran Pratt is a native of Haywood County, NC and holds an MPA degree from Western Carolina University. She spent her professional life in higher education with an emphasis on fund development and career leadership development at Columbia University in the City of New York, NC community colleges, and the University of Prishtina, Kosovo for the U.S. Department of State.
Jimmie is retired and a community/political activist, working for Equal Rights Amendment ratification in the 1970’s and is currently Co-President of the ERA-NC Alliance and a member of the LWVNC-ERA Lead Action Team. She served as ERA-NC Alliance vice-president for fundraising from January 2019 thru June 2020.