US Midterms 2026
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Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat who has represented Virginia's 4th congressional district since 2023 and is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia, faces Republican Robert Murray in 2026.
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Jennifer McClellan, whose full name is Jennifer Leigh McClellan, was born on December 28, 1972, in Petersburg, Virginia.
Her father, James Fennimore McClellan Jr., was a professor at Virginia State University, where her mother, Lois Dedeaux McClellan, worked as a counselor, and both were involved in civil rights activism.
She was valedictorian at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield County, earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science from the University of Richmond in 1994, and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997.
She practiced law at Hunton & Williams and later worked as regulatory counsel for Verizon Communications. McClellan married David Mills in 2008, and they live in Richmond with their two children.
McClellan first ran for office in 2005 for the House of Delegates seat vacated by Viola Baskerville, and she represented the 71st district from 2006 to 2017. She also served as vice chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
In a special election on January 10, 2017, she won the 9th district seat in the Virginia State Senate vacated by Donald McEachin, and she sponsored the Virginia Clean Economy Act and the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, both signed into law.
She ran for governor in 2021 and finished third in the Democratic primary won by Terry McAuliffe.
After McEachin died on November 28, 2022, McClellan won a firehouse primary on December 20, 2022, and defeated pastor Leon Benjamin in the February 21, 2023, special election with 74.4% of the vote. She was sworn in on March 7, 2023, and serves on the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Jennifer McClellan is the Democratic incumbent in Virginia's 4th congressional district, which takes in the city of Richmond and portions of Southside Virginia along Interstate 95. She was re-elected with 67.3% of the vote in 2024 and is the Democratic nominee again. In the November 3, 2026, general election McClellan faces Republican Robert Murray, a former CIO advisory leader for IBM, and independent candidate Joan Andrews Bell, an anti-abortion activist.
