Val Demings

Valdez Venita Demings (2016)

Valdez Venita "Val" Demings (born March 12, 1957 in Jacksonville , Florida ) is an American politician . Since January 3, 2017, she has been representing the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

As an African American, she is traded as a possible Vice President under Joe Biden .

Career

Val Butler, her maiden name, is one of seven children of a poor African American family. In her youth she attended schools that were segregated according to race. After high school, she studied criminology at Florida State University between 1976 and 1979 . She then attended Webster University . Eventually she graduated from the Police Academy. Since 1984 she has served in the Orlando City Police Department. In 2007 she became the first woman to become head of this agency. She held this office until 2012.

Politically, Demings joined the Democratic Party . In 2012 she ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 2016 congressional elections , however, she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Florida , where she succeeded Republican Daniel Webster , who moved to the eleventh district, on January 3, 2017 .

She has three children with her husband, Orange County's mayor, Jerry L. Demings .

Web links

• Biography at Project Vote Smart
• Biography at Ballotpedia
• Val Demings in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amy Klobuchar declines to run as a possible US Vice President
2. ↑ Orange County Mayor. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .