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Val Demings. Valdez Venita Demings (née Butler; born March 12, 1957) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative from Florida's 10th congressional district since 2017. The district covers most of the western half of Orlando and includes much of the area around Orlando's resort parks. It includes many of Orlando's western suburbs, ...
Her husband, Jerry Demings, is the former Orange County Sheriff and current mayor of Orange County, Florida. He served as the Chief of the Orlando Police Department (OPD), the first African American to do so, from 1999 to 2002. The two met while on patrol in the OPD; they married in 1988 and have three children.
Demings received a 100% voting score from NARAL Pro-Choice America for 2017, 2018, and 2019. She received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund for 2020. She has an F rating from the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List.
On December 18, 2019, Demings voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. She was selected as one of seven impeachment managers who presented the impeachment case against Trump during his trial before the United States Senate.
In early August 2020, Demings was said to be one of the top contenders to be Joe Biden 's vice presidential running mate in the 2020 United States presidential election, along with Kamala Harris and Susan Rice. She is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2022 United States Senate election .
However, Kamala Harris was officially announced as Biden's running mate on August 11, 2020. In November 2020, Demings was named a candidate for United States Secretary of Homeland Security in the Biden Administration.
They lived in Mandarin, a neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. She attended segregated schools in the 1960s, graduating from Wolfson High School in the 1970s. Demings became interested in a career in law enforcement after serving in the "school patrol" at Dupont Junior High School.