Dale Folwell is the current North Carolina State Treasurer, and former Speaker Pro Tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
A Republican from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he served four terms in the North Carolina General Assembly.
In 2013, Folwell was named head of the state's Division of Employment Security in the administration of Governor Pat McCrory.
He resigned from that position, effective December 1, 2015.
That day, he filed to run for State Treasurer in the 2016 election.