Elaine Luria, a U.S. House Representative from Virginia; born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., August 15, 1975; B.S., United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1997; attended United States Naval Nuclear Power School, Goose Greek, S.C., 2000; M.S., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va., 2004; United States Navy, 1997-2017; small business owner; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2019-January 3, 2023); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022.