Woodbridge resident Pamela Montgomery, a former Army JAG officer and civil rights attorney, is stepping into the ring for the Democratic nomination to replace Jennifer Carroll Foy in the Virginia House of Delegates 2nd District.
Gov. Ralph Northam has announced a Jan. 5 special election to fill the Prince William County seat after Carroll Foy announced Tuesday she is stepping down from the legislature to focus on her run for governor in 2021.
The Democratic and Republican parties have until Monday to pick their nominees, though the process for how that will happen wasn t entirely clear Thursday. Dumfries resident Candi King, also a Democrat, has also announced her campaign to replace Carroll Foy.
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Heather Mitchell will make another run for Special Election for Virginia’s 2nd House District, which could happen as soon as early January.
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This will be the second time Mitchell, a Republican, has campaigned for the seat. She lost in November 2019 to incumbent Jennifer Carroll Foy (D), Prince William County, who has held the seat since 2017.
Carroll Foy announced she would step down from the seat to devote her full attention to her campaign for state governor, which she launched a statewide bus tour in Spring 2019 a precursor to her gubernatorial campaign at the same time she sought reelection to her House of Delegates seat.