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2021 Virginia Attorney General Election
The 2021 Virginia attorney general election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for governor, but decided to run for re-election. Herring faced Republican nominee Jason Miyares in the general election. Herring conceded defeat at 5:02 PM EST the following day, November 3. Miyares became the first Cuban-American and Hispanic to be elected to statewide office in Virginia. Miyares was later sworn in on January 15, 2022. Democratic primary Candidates Nominee * Mark Herring, incumbent attorney general Eliminated in primary * Jay Jones, state delegate for Virginia's 89th House of Delegates district Declined * Shannon Taylor, Henrico County commonwealth's attorney Endorsements Debates Mark Herring and Jay Jones agreed to one debate. The debate started off with Mark Herring started off talking about his record and saying w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Miyares
Jason Stuart Miyares (born February 11, 1976) is an American attorney and politician serving as the 48th Attorney General of Virginia since January 15, 2022. A Republican, he was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates on November 3, 2015, from the 82nd district which encompasses part of Virginia Beach. He was elected Attorney General of Virginia in 2021. Early life and education Miyares was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and attended public schools in Virginia Beach. His mother had fled from Cuba in 1965. Miyares earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University and a Juris Doctor from College of William & Mary’s Law School. He was Chairman of the Hampton Roads Young Republicans and a founding member of the Hampton Roads Federalist Society. He later served as an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Virginia Beach.Matt McKinneyMiyares wins Virginia House of Delegates 82nd District ''The Virginian-Pilot'' (November 4, 2014). Career Miya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Connolly
Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district, first elected in 2008. The district is anchored in Fairfax County, an affluent suburban county south of Washington, D.C. It includes all of Fairfax City and part of Prince William County. Connolly is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life Connolly graduated from Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, with a B.A. in literature in 1971, and completed a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1979. Early career Connolly worked from 1979 to 1989 with the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he managed committee oversight of international economic issues, international narcotics control, and United Nations and Middle East policies, and published reports on U.S. policy in El Salvador, Central America, Israel, and the Persian Gulf region. From 1989 to 1997, he was V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Carr
Betsy Brooks Carr (born July 27, 1946) is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 69th district, which includes part of Richmond and Chesterfield County. She served on the School Board in Richmond, Virginia, from 2006 to 2009 before being elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in the 2009 General Election. Career Betsy Carr was born on July 27, 1946, in Norfolk, Virginia. She served on the School Board in Richmond, Virginia, from 2006 to 2009. In addition, she is the founder, and in the past was the director of, the Micah Initiative, a program which is in partnership with 105 religious communities and 25 Elementary Schools that provides volunteers and tutors for children. She was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009 representing parts of the City of Richmond and the County of Chesterfield on both sides of the James River. In the House of Delegates she serves on the Appropriations, Transportation, General Laws, and Rules Committees. She als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bulova
David L. Bulova (born May 6, 1969) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He represents the 37th district, including the city of Fairfax and part of Fairfax County.Virginia Senate House of Delegates; David L. Bulova He is the son of former Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairman Sharon Bulova Sharon Schuster Bulova is an American politician who was chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Virginia. A Democrat, she was first elected chairman in a special election on February 3, 2009. Bulova was reelected in 2011 and agai .... Committees Bulova serves as Chair of the General Laws Committee and Chair of the Commerce, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Subcommittee in the Appropriations Committee. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Education Committee, Agriculture Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Appropriations Committee. References Sources *Delegate David Bulova; W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Adams
Dawn Marie Adams (born November 6, 1964) is an American politician serving as the Delegate from the 68th District of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2018. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Adams is a nurse practitioner and small business owner as well as a former Director of the Office of Integrated Health at the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and a former Health Policy adjunct faculty at the Old Dominion University. As an openly lesbian woman, Adams is the first lesbian elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia General Assembly. Adams is one of four openly LGBT people currently serving in the Virginia General Assembly (alongside Adam Ebbin, Mark Sickles, and Danica Roem). Political career In 2017, Adams challenged Republican incumbent Manoli Loupassi for the 68th district seat in the House of Delegates, ultimately winning by 336 votes of the 40,000 cast in the district. Adams is Virginia's first openly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charniele Herring
Charniele LeRhonda Herring ( ; born September 25, 1969) is an American politician. She has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2009, representing the Virginia's 46th House of Delegates district, 46th district, made up of portions of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria and Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County, near Washington, D.C. Herring is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. She has been the House Democratic Caucus Chair since 2015 and in December 2012, she was the first African-American to be elected chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia. In 2020, she was elected to be the Majority Leader in the Virginia House of Delegates, making her the first woman and the first African-American to hold the position. After April 27, 2022, she was ''de facto'' minority leader following the ouster of Eileen Filler-Corn. The Democratic caucus did not immediately choose a replacement for Filler-Corn, but simultaneously voted to retain He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia House Of Delegates
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbered years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is usually a member of the majority party and, as Speaker, becomes the most powerful member of the House. The House shares legislative power with the Senate of Virginia, the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the Virginia House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown in 1619. The House is divided into Democratic and Republican caucuses. In addition to the Speaker, there is a majority leader, majority whip, majority caucus chair, minority leader, minority whip, minority caucus chair, and the chairs of the several committees of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Filler-Corn
Eileen Robin Filler-Corn (born June 5, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates from January to April 2022, a position she previously held from 2019 to 2020. She previously served as the 56th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2020 to 2022. Since 2010 she has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 41st district in the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is also the first woman and Jew to serve as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Personal life Filler-Corn was born in New York City and grew up in West Windsor, New Jersey, graduating from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in 1982. She graduated from Ithaca College, Ithaca NY with a B.A. degree in 1986. She received her J.D. degree from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC in 1993. In the time between her two college stints, she worked o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia's 18th Senate District
Virginia's 18th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. It has been represented by Democrat Louise Lucas since 1992. Geography District 18 is located in southeastern Virginia, including all of Greensville County, Sussex County, and the City of Emporia, as well as parts of Brunswick County, Isle of Wight County, Southampton County, Surry County, and the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Portsmouth, and Suffolk. The district overlaps with Virginia's 3rd, 4th, and 5th congressional districts, and with the 64th, 75th, 76th, 79th, and 80th districts of the Virginia House of Delegates. It borders the state of North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So .... Recent election results 2019 2015 2011 Federal and statewid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Pro Tempore
A president pro tempore or speaker pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. The phrase ''pro tempore'' is Latin "for the time being". In Argentina, a similar role is carried by the Provisional President of the Argentine Senate in the absence of the Vice President of Argentina. By the 1994 amendment to the 1853 Constitution, the Vice President is designated as the Senate President. See also *President pro tempore of the United States Senate * President pro tempore of the California State Senate * President pro tempore of the Kentucky Senate * President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate * President pro tempore of the North Dakota Senate *President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate * President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate *President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia *President pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines *President pro tempore of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Lucas
Lillie Louise Lucas ( Boone; born January 22, 1944) is an American politician serving as a Virginia state senator, representing the 18th District in the southeast of the state since 1992. Democrats won a majority of seats in the 2019 Virginia Senate election, so Lucas succeeded Republican Stephen Newman as the Virginia Senate's President pro tempore. She is the first woman and first African American to hold that office. Early and family life Lucas was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She attended Portsmouth public schools including during their shutdown during Massive Resistance. Lucas attended Norfolk State University, graduating ''cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science in Vocational-Industrial Education in 1976. She earned a Master of Arts, graduating ''magna cum laude'', in Urban Affairs with a concentration in Human Resources Planning and Administration in 1982. Career Lucas began a federal government career in 1967, aged 23, as an apprentice shipfitter at the Norfolk Nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia's 10th Senate District
Virginia's 10th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. The district has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Ghazala Hashmi since 2020, following her 2019 Virginia Senate election, 2019 defeat of incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican Glen Sturtevant. Geography District 10 is located in the Greater Richmond Region, covering much of the Richmond, Virginia, City of Richmond as well as all of Powhatan County, Virginia, Powhatan County and parts of Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield County. The district overlaps with Virginia's Virginia's 4th congressional district, 4th and Virginia's 7th congressional district, 7th congressional districts, and with the Virginia's 27th House of Delegates district, 27th, Virginia's 65th House of Delegates district, 65th, Virginia's 66th House of Delegates district, 66th, Virginia's 68th House of Delegates district, 68th, Virginia's 69th House of Delegates district, 69th, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
