Charniele Herring

Charniele Herring was elected to the General Assembly in 2009 and elected by her colleagues as Majority Leader of the House of Delegates in 2020. She was the first woman and the first African American to serve as Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Building upon a rich history of community service, Charniele has brought her strong leadership and ability to work in a bipartisan manner to the General Assembly. She patroned legislation to give small businesses a competitive advantage in the state’s procurement process and is a longstanding champion for education, receiving numerous awards from the Virginia Education Association. Herring also sponsored a bill establishing the first-ever sexual and domestic violence prevention fund in Virginia, for which she was honored with the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s HOPE Award.