Representative Paul Stam is currently serving his sixth term in the North Carolina House of Representatives. He was first elected to that position in 1989 and again in 2003, serving as the House Republican Leader since 2007 and the House Majority Leader since 2011.

Representative Stam has devotedly worked for more freedom and less government in areas like providing school choice to empower parents to ensure quality schooling for their children, pro-life protection for mothers and children, protection from condemnation and annexation abuse, fairness to state employees, access to affordable quality health care and finding a solution to illegal immigration. He has continued to fight wasteful spending in the General Assembly, including hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to out-of-state corporations.

Representative Stam received a Bachelor of Science with High Honors from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975.

For over 35 years Representative Stam has lived and worked in Apex as an attorney.

He is married to Dottie Mills Stam, Music Director of Apex Baptist Church.

They have two children, Nathan and Jana. Nathan is a graduate of NC State and Southeastern Seminary and is Minister of Children at Apex Baptist Church. He and his wife Kristi have three sons Aidan, Gavin, Tobin and Maggie. Jana is a graduate of Carolina. She and her husband Jimmy Estes live in Apex with their three sons, William, Daniel and James.