Justin Fairfax
| Justin Fairfax | |
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Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Elect |
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Taking office January 13, 2018 |
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| Governor | Ralph Northam (elect) |
| Succeeding | Ralph Northam |
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| Born |
Justin Edward Fairfax February 17, 1979 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Cerina Fairfax (m. 2006) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Duke University (BA) Columbia University (JD) |
| Website | Campaign website |
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) is an American attorney and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. A Democrat, he is the Lieutenant Governor-elect of Virginia, defeating Republican Party nominee Jill Vogel in the 2017 general election. He is the first African-American elected statewide in Virginia since Douglas Wilder in 1989.
Fairfax moved with his family from Pittsburgh to northeast Washington, D.C. when he was five years old. One of four children, Fairfax graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he was senior class president. Fairfax graduated from Duke University in 2000, with a degree in public policy. He was a briefing coordinator for Tipper Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, in the campaign's Nashville, Tennessee office. Fairfax was also a staffer for Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, in the senator's Washington office.
He served on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee for two years before attending Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review. Fairfax then served as law clerk to Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2005. He worked in the Washington office of the law firm WilmerHale before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2010. Fairfax worked for two years as a federal prosecutor in Alexandria, Virginia. He served as deputy coordinator of the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force during this time.
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