Jennifer Carroll Foy just became Virginia’s next governor. True, she has to win next year’s Democratic primary and then beat some ragamuffin Republican in the general election, but that’s all a formality. Foy declared her candidacy Wednesday in a launch video so moving they’ve already cast Kerry Washington in the movie.
Foy grew up in Petersburg, which is home to Pocahontas Island, one of the earliest free black settlements in Virginia. Her hometown has been “neglected and ignored for years with one of the highest child poverty rates and the highest teen pregnancy rate” in Virginia. Petersburg also has the fewest number of accredited schools in the commonwealth. Foy ruefully notes that “girls from Petersburg aren’t supposed to be successful.” She has spent her life proving that theory wrong. Foy received a full scholarship to the Virginia Military Institute (she was in the third class of women cadets ever to attend). She went on to earn her Master’s from Virginia State University and her law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California. She was a litigator in Los Angeles and later a criminal defense attorney in Virginia.
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