Glass ceiling on statewide offices remains for black women From left to right clockwise: independent Princess Blanding, former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince WIlliam, Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, and former Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson. (Source: Capitol News Service) By Josephine Walker | Capital News Service | May 5, 2021 at 6:34 PM EDT - Updated May 5 at 9:34 PM
RICHMOND, Va. Four Black women have entered the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial race. If elected, the commonwealth would become the first state with a Black female governor.
Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, and former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, are competing for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Former Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson is seeking the Republican nomination. Independent activist and educator Princess Blanding is running for the new Liberation Party, which she helped establish last year.
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Former Roanoke City Sheriff Johnson announces run for Virginia governor Octavia Johnson announces her run for Virginia Governor on the steps of the Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building. (Source: WDBJ) By Lindsay Cayne | March 4, 2021 at 9:12 PM EST - Updated March 5 at 12:02 PM
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Former Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson announced Thursday she is seeking the Republican nomination for Virginia governor.
She made her announcement on the steps of the Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building. Johnson was Roanoke City’s Sheriff from 2006 to 2013.
She said she is concerned with all of Virginia and that the pandemic has revealed that many people are struggling, so she hopes to be a leader who can talk with area citizens and find out what their issues are.