Jennifer Wexton

Jennifer Lynn Tosini Wexton (born May 27, 1968) is an American attorney and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Wexton represents the 33rd district in the Virginia Senate. It includes northeastern Loudoun County and northwestern Fairfax County. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Wexton is a partner in The Laurel Brigade Law Group. She served as a substitute judge in Loudoun County, Virginia, and as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney. Wexton ran for Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney in the 2011 elections, losing to Jim Plowman, an incumbent.

After Mark Herring, who represented the 33rd district in the Virginia Senate, won the 2013 election to serve as the Attorney General of Virginia, Wexton declared her candidacy in the special election. In the Democratic primary, Wexton defeated Herndon Town Councilor Sheila Olem. Controversy brewed over campaign ads endorsed by Wexton. They compared Tea Party activists to rapists, though her campaign denied the comparison. She faced Republican John Whitbeck and Republican-turned-Independent Joe T. May in the general election, and won by 53%–38%–10%.

She began her tenure on January 24, 2014.

Wexton is from Leesburg, Virginia. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She then enrolled at the College of William & Mary School of Law, and received her Juris Doctor in 1995. At William & Mary, she was a member of Phi Delta Phi, a legal honor society. Her father and mother were senior economists at the United States Department of the Treasury and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, respectively.

Wexton married Andrew Wexton in 2001, at the age of 33. The couple have two children.