Haseeb Fatmi (Wake Forest Town Council, North Carolina, candidate 2025)
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Haseeb Fatmi is running for election to the Wake Forest Town Council in North Carolina. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Fatmi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Haseeb Fatmi provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 23, 2025:
- Birth date: January 25, 1988
- Birth place: Durham, North Carolina
- High school: William G. Enloe High School
- Bachelor's: UNC Chapel Hill, 2009
- J.D.: Fordham University School of Law, 2012
- Gender: Male
- Profession: Lawyer
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Create a Walkable Wake Forest
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Elections
General election
The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.
General election for Wake Forest Town Council (2 seats)
The following candidates are running in the general election for Wake Forest Town Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
Thomas Dement (Nonpartisan)  | ||
 | Haseeb Fatmi (Nonpartisan) | |
 | Pam James (Nonpartisan) | |
| R. Keith Shackleford (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Nick Sliwinski (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Jasmine Zavala (Nonpartisan) | |
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Haseeb Fatmi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fatmi's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I attended Fordham University School of Law, where I focused on civil and human rights. I volunteered with organizations combatting domestic violence, and conducted research on the intersection of mental health and human rights in Cambodia. After I graduated, I became a trial attorney, and later worked for the Social Security Administration and served as a Special Assistance United States Attorney. I also served as a federal judicial law clerk in the Northern and Southern District of New York.
I met my wife in law school, and after getting married, we moved back to North Carolina. I continue working as an attorney, and I am also an Adjunct Process at Campbell University School of Law teaching trial advocacy. I also provide pro bono services to clients who need legal representation on social security, domestic violence, civil rights, and immigration matters.- One of the major issues that Wake Forest residents deal with on a daily basis is the rampant overdevelopment and our outdated infrastructure. Our population has tripled over the past twenty years, and developers continually seek to clear cut our green spaces and cram as many housing developments between existing neighborhoods without any consideration of our roads, traffic, schools, and other overcrowding. Residents are getting priced out of Wake Forest. We need to pause the new developments and allow our infrastructure to catch up, while investing resources into projects like repairing our roads, updating our traffic lights, public transportation, and public works.
- We must prioritize conservation. In addition to protecting our parks and green spaces, the Town should do more to protect its natural resources, most importantly the Smith Creek reservoir, the last forest in Wake County. Wake Forest seeks to acquire that land from the County, clear cut it, and develop it into houses. I want to put a stop to that. One of my goals as Commissioner will be to establish an Office of Natural Resources so that we can protect our resources like our water and forest. I would also invest more in our Public Works Department to support the amazing work of our employees who keep the Town running.
- I believe in a Wake Forest that is accessible to all of its residents, not just a select few. A walkable Wake Forest is one where everyone can not only physically enjoy what our Town has to offer, but where everyone feels safe doing so. This means taking care of our active aging population by expanding the Center of Active Aging. We should ensure that our public spaces and greenways are accessible--for wheelchairs and strollers alike. We should encourage free speech and free expression, celebrate our differences and diversity, and support our neighborhood organizations.
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See also
2025 Elections
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