Winsome Sears

Winsome Earle Sears (born March 11, 1964) is an American politician who is the 42nd and current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. She is a Republican. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004.
In September 2018, she ran for U.S. Senate as a Republican write-in.
Sears was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in the 2021 election. She won the election; becoming the first black woman to be elected in a statewide office in Virginia.
On January 15, 2022, Sears was sworn in as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.