I grew up in Greensboro and met my husband, Jimmy Hagood, in Chapel Hill when he was in medical school and I was in graduate school. We married in 1986 and have since lived in Nashville, Birmingham, and San Diego. We moved back to Chapel Hill in 2018 and came to Blacknall in 2021. I work as an attorney representing indigent criminal defendants on appeal. We have two adult children. Our son, Johnson, lives in Waco, Texas, and our daughter, Isabel, and her husband Mark live in DC. (But Isabel and Mark are moving to the Triangle this fall!)

We’re in our second year of helping teach middle school Sunday School (non-stop action fun) and leading a Chapel Hill small group (wonderful growth and fellowship).

I became a Christian in high school through the ministry of Young Life. Since I first understood the gospel, I am continually finding out that the bad news is even worse than I thought (i.e., I and the world are even more broken than I imagined), and the good news is better and more insanely wonderful than I could ever have dreamed in my wildest imagining (i.e., there is no beginning and no end to the ridiculous love of God for us, His passion and longing for fellowship with us, and His eagerness to forgive us and bless us). If I am chosen to be an elder, I would love to focus on Blacknall’s ministry to our youth.