EMILYs List Endorses Jackie Glass for Virginia House District 89

For Immediate Release
January 7, 2022

EMILY's List Endorses Jackie Glass for Virginia House District 89

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Jackie Glass to represent District 89 in the Virginia House of Delegates. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:

“EMILYs List is proud to endorse Jackie Glass to represent District 89 in the Virginia House of Delegates. The great women in the Virginia House of Delegates have fought to secure voting rights, reproductive freedom, economic justice, and protect the environment. Republicans are set to seize control of the Virginia House shortly, so it is essential that we keep this seat blue and elect Jackie Glass, a champion for justice and economic prosperity for Norfolk’s families.”

Jackie Glass served in the U.S. Navy for eleven years. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Workforce Education Training and Development from Southern Illinois University. She is currently a social entrepreneur, consulting with businesses, organizations, and governments to improve markets and policies that are influenced by racism, sexism, and classism.

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 159 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40% of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.