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The lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The lieutenant governor is elected every four years along with the governor and attorney general. The office is currently held by Winsome Earle Sears, who was elected in 2021 and is the first woman of color to hold this position ...
Winsome Earle-Sears (born March 11, 1964) is an American politician and Marine Corps veteran serving since 2022 as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia.A member of the Republican Party, Earle-Sears served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004.
The 2025 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election will be held on November 4, 2025, to elect the lieutenant governor of Virginia. Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears has said she will not run for re-election to a second term in office, instead choosing to run for governor. Primary elections will take place on June 17 ...
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) [2] [3] is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second African-American elected statewide in Virginia, following Douglas Wilder.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) filed paperwork this week to run for governor next year in the state. Sears’s paperwork was accepted Wednesday by Virginia’s Department of Elections ...
Both Earle-Sears and Roem are precedent-setters in the Senate. Earle-Sears is the first Black woman to be lieutenant governor and because of that role, the first Black woman to preside over the ...
The 2021 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next lieutenant governor of Virginia.Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was eligible to run for a second term, but instead unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. [1]
Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, has made history as the first Black woman to be elected as Virginia’s lieutenant governor. The post Republican Winsome Sears elected Virginia’s first ...