Winsome Earle-Sears

Winsome Earle-Sears has served as lieutenant governor of Virginia since 2022, Virginia's first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. She is the Republican nominee for governor for the 2025 gubernatorial election.

Earle-Sears was born on March 11, 1964, in Kingston, Jamaica and emigrated to the United States in 1970. She earned an associate’s degree from Tidewater Community College, a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in economics from Old Dominion University and anmaster’s degree in organizational leadership from Regent University.

From 1983 to 1986, Earle-Sears was an electrician in the United States Marines. She has also served as director of a Salvation Army Women's Shelter and is president/owner of an appliance store.

Earle-Sears began her political career as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 2002 to 2004. She ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia's 3rd congressional district in 2004 and for U.S. Senate in 2018.

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