State and Local Candidates
Here are the candidates who are running strong campaigns at the state and local level in 2025 and 2026 and have earned the EMILYs List endorsement.
EMILYs List recruits, trains and supports Democratic pro-choice women candidates at every level of the ballot. By helping to elect these women to office in 2025 and 2026, we’re not only building a foundation for the future, but we’re also putting strong women in charge of decisions that affect women and families every day — from the legislators who write laws to the attorneys general who defend and enforce them to the secretaries of state who ensure access to the ballot.
- Arizona
- Kris Mayes – Attorney General
- Stephanie Simacek – AZ-HD2
- Karen Gresham – AZ-HD4
- Lorena Austin – AZ-HD9
- California
- Barbara Lee – Oakland Mayor
- Karen Bass – Los Angeles Mayor
- Colorado
- Jena Griswold – Attorney General
- Florida
- Eileen Higgins – Miami Mayor
- Georgia
- Tanya Miller – Attorney General
- Miracle Rankin – State Supreme Court
- Jen Jordan – State Supreme Court
- Danielle Bell – GA-HD44
- Michelle Schriener – GA-HD45
- Beth Fuller – GA-HD53
- Michelle Kang – GA-HD99
- Louisiana
- Helena Moreno – New Orleans Mayor
- Massachusetts
- Andrea Campbell – Attorney General
- Michelle Wu – Boston Mayor
- Michigan
- Karen McDonald – Attorney General
- Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh – State Supreme Court
- Mary Sheffield – Detroit Mayor
- Sue Shink – MI-SD14
- Carol Glanville – MI-SD30
- Mai Xiong – MI-HD13
- Reggie Miller – MI-HD31
- Jennifer Conlin – MI-HD48
- Denise Mentzer – MI-HD61
- Betsy Coffia – MI-HD103
- Minnesota
- Shelley Buck – MN-HD47A
- Liz Boldon – MN-SD25
- Heather Gustafson – MN-SD36
- Judy Seeberger – MN-SD41
- Ann Johnson Stewart – MN-SD45
- Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger – MN-SD47
- Lindsey Port – MN-SD55
- Erin Maye Quade – MN-SD56
- Kari Rehrauer – MN-HD35B
- Brion Curran – MN-HD36B
- Kristin Bahner – MN-HD37B
- Lucy Rehm – MN-HD48B
- Mary Frances Clardy – MN-HD53A
- Jess Hanson – MN-HD55A
- Kristi Pursell – MN-HD58A
- Nevada
- Sandra Jauregui – Lieutenant Governor
- Nicole Cannizzaro – Attorney General
- Kamilah Bywaters – NV-AD02
- Maria Teresa Hank – NV-AD09
- Ashley Delobel – NV-AD29
- Gabriela Wyett – NV-AD41
- New Mexico
- Maggie Toulouse Oliver – Lieutenant Governor
- North Carolina
- Anita Earls – State Supreme Court
- Vi Lyles – Charlotte Mayor
- Jessica Bichler – NC-SD07
- Lisa Grafstein – NC-SD13
- April Cook – NC-SD34
- Woodson Bradley – NC-SD42
- Evonne Hopkins – NC-HD35
- Amy Taylor North -NC-HD74
- Beth Helfrich – NC-HD98
- Lindsey Prather – NC-HD115
- Ohio
- Allison Russo – Secretary of State
- Justice Jennifer Brunner – State Supreme Court
- Judge Marilyn Zayas – State Supreme Court
- Pennsylvania
- Justice Christine Donohue – State Supreme Court
- Eileen Albillar – PA-SD06
- Maria Collett – PA-SD12
- Lindsey Williams – PA-SD38
- Katie Muth – PA-SD44
- Mandy Steele – PA-HD33
- Hadley Haas – PA-HD44
- Brittany Bloam – PA-HD45
- Sara Agerton – PA-HD88
- Jessica McClay – PA-HD121
- Kristin Egan – PA-HD142
- Elizabeth Moro – PA-HD160
- Texas
- Alisa Simmons – Tarrant County Judge
- Gina Ortiz Jones – San Antonio Mayor
- Virginia
- Ghazala Hashmi – VA-Lieutenant Governor
- Elizabeth Guzmán – VA-HD22
- Lily Franklin – VA-HD41
- May Nivar – VA-HD57
- Nicole Cole – VA-HD66
- Stacey Carroll – VA-HD64
- Jessica Anderson – VA-HD71
- Leslie Mehta – VA-HD73
- Lindsey Dougherty – VA-HD75
- Kimberly Pope Adams – VA-HD82
- Kacey Carnegie – VA-HD89
- Wisconsin
- Judge Chris Taylor – State Supreme Court
- Susan Crawford – State Supreme Court
- Robyn Vining – WI-SD05
- Jenna Jacobson – WI-SD17
- Lori Palmeri – WI-AD54
- Jodi Emerson – WI-AD91