Granville County Commissioner · District 6 · 2026
This Is My Home Too.
Dr. LaHoma Smith Romocki has lived, worked, and raised her family in Granville County for 35 years. She's running for District 6 Commissioner because the district that pays the most into this county deserves someone who answers to it.
Five problems. None of them new. None of them fixed. Here's what LaHoma would do differently.
Granville County is becoming a place people pass through, not a place they put down roots. Teachers stay a few years and leave. Parents are finding alternatives. Grown children aren't coming back. That is the result of choices our county keeps making, and a county can make different ones. As a lifelong educator, LaHoma knows what a school system that actually invests in its children looks like. It's time we built one here.
Residents have been raising questions about Granville County's water quality for years. Those questions deserve real answers, not reassurances. LaHoma will push for independent testing, full transparency, and genuine accountability from SGWASA and every other entity managing our water. In the southern end of the county, wells are a lifeline. Protecting them is a public health issue, and it will be treated like one. Monitoring the impact of rapid growth on the water supply is critical as well.
Residents of District 6 contribute more in county taxes than any other district. We have less to show for it. Our residents deserve places to work, shop, and spend time without a 30-minute drive. We need parks and recreation for kids and for seniors, not a forced choice between the two. LaHoma will ask one question of every county dollar: what does District 6 get back — and how do we build a community that is both prosperous and affordable? Those two things cannot be in opposition.
Being near I-85 and US 1 is an asset for anyone who can drive. Not everyone can. LaHoma has spent her career in public health, from rural North Carolina to communities around the world. She knows that access to care is the difference between catching a problem early and showing up at the ER too late. People in District 6 with mobility challenges, limited transportation, or demanding work schedules deserve a county that plans for them, not around them.
Citizens who show up to public meetings should be treated with respect: not dismissed, not mocked, not ignored, not cursed at, not insulted, not bullied. Public records should be easy to access. Decisions should be explained and defended. LaHoma has worked in and around government at every level, including the White House. She knows what accountable leadership looks like. District 6 hasn't been getting it.
Six generations of LaHoma Smith Romocki's family are buried in Wilton, in the southern end of the county, on land the family has been on since 1805, longer than Granville County has had a board of commissioners. She is the seventh generation. When she says District 6 is her home, she means a deed, a church pew, and a family plot.
Peace Corps volunteer. Public health professional. Senior Policy Analyst at the White House. Peace Corps Country Director. Full professor and department chair, with degrees from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. For 35 years, Granville County has been home base for all of it. Every role on that list came down to the same skill: walking into a system that was failing people and being answerable for fixing it.
The years since have been the unglamorous kind of service that never makes a resume. Thirteen years leading a Girl Scout troop in Granville County. A seat on the Vance-Granville Health Board. The same church congregation since 1991. She came of age during desegregation and has spent her career as an educator reckoning with what that era built and what it broke — an experience that shapes how she thinks about schools, equity, and what communities owe their children. And year after year, she has watched the same problems sit unaddressed: the water, the schools, the closed doors. She is done watching.
She is a wife, a mother, a caregiver, and a neighbor who knows the people on her street. Nobody in District 6 has to take a chance on a stranger. She is asking for the job of looking after a place her family has looked after for more than two hundred years.
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