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Charniele Herring has been elected the first black chairwoman of the Virginia’s Democratic Party. Herring is the first African American to ever head a major political party. She is a three-term state delegate. Herring was elected to the General Assembly in January 2009 and she is the first black woman from Northern Virginia ever elected to the Virginia legislature.