Jennifer Mcclellan

Background

Jennifer Leigh McClellan (born December 28, 1972) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 9th district in the Virginia State Senate from 2017 to 2023 and the 71st district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2006 to 2017. She ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Virginia in the 2021 election, losing to former governor Terry McAuliffe.

McClellan was the Democratic nominee in the 2023 Virginia's 4th congressional district special election, and defeated Republican nominee Leon Benjamin with 74.4% of the vote. She is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia.

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Jennifer Mcclellan served as U.S. unitedstates.github.io

Jennifer Mcclellan was born on 1972-12-28. unitedstates.github.io

Jennifer Mcclellan's gender is recorded as F in the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset. unitedstates.github.io

Jennifer McClellan was the Democratic nominee in the 2023 Virginia's 4th congressional district special election en.wikipedia.org

[Wikipedia: 2023 special] McClellan was the Democratic nominee in the 2023 special election for Virginia's 4th congressional district; the seat became vacant en.wikipedia.org