[2] Beasley was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in North Carolina.

[5][6] Beasley spent her first years after law school as an assistant public defender in Cumberland County, North Carolina.

In 2008, Beasley was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, defeating incumbent Douglas McCullough by a 15-point margin.

[11] On February 12, 2019, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Beasley to the position of chief justice after Mark Martin retired, making her the first African-American woman to serve as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

[15] In February 2021, various media outlets reported that Beasley was considering running in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina.