Wren Williams and Bridgette Craighead are both business owners younger than 35 who are newcomers to Virginia politics.
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Bridgette Craighead
Age: 31
Residence: Rocky Mount
Family/Community: One son, Bronsyn, 5. Rocky Mount native, four siblings; raised by her grandmother in Roanoke, Elsie Craighead, 85.
Education: William Fleming High School graduate, 2008; cosmetology certificate from Paul Mitchell The School Roanoke, 2020.
Career: Opened El3ven11 Beauty Lounge in Rocky Mount, November 2020.
Political activism: Founder of Franklin County’s first Black Lives Matter chapter, 2020.
Wren Williams
Age: 32
Residence: Stuart
Family/Community: Patrick County native. Married to Britt Williams, 33.
Education: Patrick County High School graduate, 2007; B.A. in English, Hampden-Sydney College, 2011; Master’s degree in business administration and doctor of law degree, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 2014.
Career: As teen, worked at Ten Oaks Hardwood Flooring, the Patrick County business founded by his grandfather and run by his family. In 2015, in partnership with his wife, founded law firm Schneider & Williams in Stuart.
Political activism: Becomes chair of Patrick County Republican Committee, 2018; Volunteer attorney for Trump campaign in Wisconsin election results challenge, 2020-21.
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