Jill Kendrick Holtzman Vogel (née Holtzman, July 6, 1970) is an American attorney and politician serving as the
Virginia State Senator from the
27th district since 2008. A
Republican
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, her district is located in exurban and rural parts of
Northern Virginia
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, and it includes all of
Clarke
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,
Fauquier, and
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counties,
Winchester city, as well as pieces of
Culpeper,
Loudoun
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, and
Stafford counties.
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Early and family life
Born in Roanoke, Virginia
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, Vogel's family started a small business, Holtzman Oil Company, which eventually grew into an enterprise employing over 600 people in Virginia. Vogel attended the College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...
in Williamsburg, Virginia
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, and received a B.A. degree in government and religion. She then attended DePaul University
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's Law School in Chicago
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, Illinois
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, and received a J.D. degree.[Jill Holtzman Vogel]
at Virginia Senate site
Political career
A member of the Virginia and Washington D.C. bars, Vogel did legal work for charitable and nonprofit organizations, as well as campaign finance and ethics. Vogel served as Deputy General Counsel in the Department of Energy, before starting her own law firm, Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky. Vogel became the Chief Counsel of the Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. Political action committee, political committee that assists the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republi ...
in February 2004. Previously, she had been Deputy Chief Counsel, and was involved in the 2000 Florida recount and as a staff counsel at the 1996 Republican National Convention.
She was elected to the Senate of Virginia as a Republican in 2007, after long-term state senator Russ Potts
Harry Russell Potts Jr. (March 4, 1939 – December 19, 2021) was an American businessman, journalist, and politician who served as a Republican state senator in Virginia, representing the 27th district from 1992 to 2008. An independent candi ...
retired. She represents much of the territory that was once represented by former Governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
and U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr.
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization ...
and former U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harr ...
It was one of the first areas of Virginia to turn Republican; the GOP has held the seat without interruption since Harry Jr.'s appointment to the U. S. Senate in 1965.
Vogel faced a contentious race in 2007, winning by only 661 votes over Winchester School Board Trustee Karen Schultz as the Democrats regained control of the Senate. She was re-elected by a wider margin in 2011.
In 2015, Vogel's candidacy for reelection was unopposed. She became the Caucus Whip for the Republican party in the state Senate.
In 2017, after an unusually bitter primary battle, Vogel became the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2017
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. She lost to Democrat Justin Fairfax
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in the general election on November 7, 2017.
In 2019 Vogel was reelected to the Virginia State Senate. Also in 2019, Vogel was presented with the Legislator of the Year award from the Virginia Professional Fire Fighters organization.
In December 2021, ''The Daily Beast
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It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
'' reported that Vogel had done substantial work for Kanye West's 2020 presidential campaign as part of a larger astroturfing effort by the Republican Party on behalf of West's candidacy.
Policy positions
Abortion
In 2012, Vogel attracted nationwide media attention for a bill she introduced requiring abortion clinics to administer transvaginal ultrasound
Vaginal ultrasonography is a medical ultrasonography that applies an ultrasound transducer (or "probe") in the vagina to visualize organs within the pelvic cavity. It is also called transvaginal ultrasonography because the ultrasound waves go ''a ...
s, which she described as necessary for fully informed consent.
Gun rights
In 2016, she introduced legislation to allow victims of domestic violence to more easily and quickly obtain concealed weapons permits.
Child marriage
In 2016, she also gained nationwide media attention for helping repeal laws that allowed "child marriage
Child marriage is a marriage or similar union, formal or informal, between a child under a certain age – typically 18 years – and an adult or another child.
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" involving pregnant minors.
Redistricting reform
In 2017, she sought to curb gerrymandering
In representative democracies, gerrymandering (, originally ) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. The m ...
by introducing a bill establishing more specific criteria for redistricting in Virginia
Redistricting in Virginia has been a controversial topic due to allegations of gerrymandering. In the 2017 Virginia General Assembly, all of the redistricting reform bills were killed.
Constitutional requirements
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. She also introduced legislation to legalize medicinal use of non-psychoactive cannabis oil
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s for a range of conditions.
LGBT rights
In the January 2020 session of the legislature, Vogel was the only Republican in the Senate who voted in favor of a ban on conversion therapy
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. In contrast to evidence-based medicine and cl ...
. In the same session, Vogel also voted in favor of a bill which would make it easier for transgender Virginians to change the sex listed on their birth certificates
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and a bill which would repeal Virginia's defunct ban on same-sex marriage
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.
Electoral history
References
Sources
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External links
Jill Vogel's official website
Jill Vogel's campaign site
Senate of Virginia page about Jill Vogel
Virginia Public Access Project page about Jill Vogel
Jill Vogel at Ballotpedia
Project Vote Smart – Senator Jill Vogel (VA)
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1970 births
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
College of William & Mary alumni
DePaul University College of Law alumni
Living people
People from Fauquier County, Virginia
Politicians from Roanoke, Virginia
Virginia lawyers
Republican Party Virginia state senators
Women state legislators in Virginia