Justin Fairfax

Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) is an American attorney and politician. He was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party, he beat Republican nominee Jill Vogel in the 2017 election. 

Fairfax is the second African American elected statewide, following Douglas Wilder, who was elected to the same position in 1985 and became Virginia Governor in the 1989.

In early February 2019, Big League Politics reported that Fairfax had been accused by Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford University, of sexual assault at a hotel at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

In September 2020, Fairfax announced his candidacy for Governor of Virginia. He lost the Democratic nomination to former Governor Terry McAuliffe.

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