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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, attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for Governor of Virginia, 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 and Latino Americans, 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 (politician), Jay Jones, state delegate for Virginia's 89th House of Delegates district Declined * Shannon Taylor (attorney), Shannon Taylor, Henrico County commonwealth's attorney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Beyer
Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. ( ; born June 20, 1950) is an American businessman, diplomat, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, his district is located in Northern Virginia and includes Alexandria, Falls Church, Arlington, and parts of eastern Fairfax County. Beyer has owned automobile dealerships in Virginia and has a long record of involvement in community and philanthropic work. From 1990 to 1998, he served two terms as the 36th lieutenant governor of Virginia during the gubernatorial administrations of Doug Wilder (1990–1994) and George Allen (1994–1998). His party's nominee for governor of Virginia in 1997, he lost to Republican Jim Gilmore, who was then the Attorney General of Virginia. From 2009 to 2013, he served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Barack Obama. In 2014, Beyer announced his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for held by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Adams
Dawn Marie Adams (born November 6, 1964) is an American politician who served as the Delegate from the 68th District of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2018 to 2024. 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 first member of the LGBTQ community elected to the Virginia General Assembly outside of Northern Virginia. Adams was one of four openly LGBT people 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 wi ... [...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 4th district, made up of portions of the city of Alexandria and Fairfax County, near Washington, D.C. She is the current Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates. Herring is a member of the 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 Herring as their caucus chair. On June 1, 2022, Delegate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia House Of Delegates
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses 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 List of Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates, Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the House members 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, the upper house of the General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the colonial House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown in 1619. It is the first and oldest continuous English-Speaking representative legislative assembly in the Western Hemisphere. The House is divided into Democratic Party of Virginia, Democratic and Republican Party of Vi ... [...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. She represented the 41st district in the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C., from 2010 to 2024. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is also the first woman and Jewish person 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 with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She attended law school at American University's Washington College of Law in 1993. In the time between her two college stints, she worked on Democrat Jeff Laurenti's unsuccessful 1986 campaign to ... [...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 U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat .... Recent election results 2019 2015 2011 Federal and stat ... [...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 region 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. She also chairs the powerful Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the first African American in that role. 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 ... [...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 was represented by Republican John McGuire, following its creation after re-districting. However, McGuire resigned on January 3, 2025 to become the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A special election was held to finish the remainder of McGuire's term which was won by Luther Cifers. Geography District 10 is located in the Greater Richmond Region, covering much of the City of Richmond as well as all of Powhatan County and parts of Chesterfield County. The district overlaps with Virginia's 1st, 4th, and 5th congressional districts, and with the 27th, 65th, 66th, 68th, 69th, and 71st districts of the Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses 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 elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghazala Hashmi
Ghazala Firdous Hashmi (born July 5, 1964) is an American politician and former educator serving as a member of the Senate of Virginia for the 15th district since 2020. A Democrat, she previously worked as an educator and academic administrator for 25 years before running for office in 2019. Hashmi is the Democratic nominee in the 2025 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election. If elected, she would be the first Asian-American and Muslim to win statewide office in Virginia's history. Early life and education Hashmi was born in Hyderabad, India, in 1964 to Tanveer and Zia Hashmi. She lived at her maternal grandparents' home in Malakpet during her childhood. Her maternal grandfather served in the finance department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Her family moved to the United States in 1969. Hashmi completed a B.A. in English at Georgia Southern University and earned a Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Her 1992 dissertation was titled ''William Carlos Williams and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia's 33rd Senate District
Virginia's 33rd Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Jennifer Boysko since a 2019 special election to replace fellow Democrat Jennifer Wexton, who had been elected to Congress. Geography District 33 is split between Loudoun County, Virginia, Loudoun and Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax Counties in the suburbs of Washington D.C., including some or all of Leesburg, Virginia, Leesburg, Cascades, Virginia, Cascades, Ashburn, Virginia, Ashburn, Sterling, Virginia, Sterling, Brambleton, Virginia, Brambleton, McNair, Virginia, McNair, and Herndon, Virginia, Herndon. Washington Dulles International Airport is also within the district lines. The district overlaps with Virginia's Virginia's 10th congressional district, 10th and Virginia's 11th congressional district, 11th congressional districts, and with the Virginia's 10th House of Delegates district, 10th, Virginia's 32nd House of Delegat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
