Jay Chaudhuri

Jay Chaudhuri (born June 8, 1969) is an American attorney, professor, politician and a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Indian immigrants, Chaudhuri moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina when he was 3.Chaudhuri went on to study at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville, later attending Davidson College, Columbia University, and finally North Carolina Central University School of Law.

A longtime aide to then-State Senator and state Attorney General Roy Cooper, and later to state treasurer Janet Cowell, Chaudhuri taught part-time as an adjunct law professor at North Carolina Central University for two years. In 2016, Chaudhuri joined plaintiff law firm Cohen Milstein as a part-time of counsel.