Political Note #138 Jennifer Wexton VA CD 10
Jennifer Wexton is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the William and Mary Law School. She began her legal work in 2001 as an assistant prosecutor in Loudon County. The next year, she was assigned to lead the prosecution in a case that attracted attention. Twenty year old college student Clara Schwartz was accused and, as a consequence of Jennifer Wexton's prosecution, convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy in orchestrating her father's murder. Wexton did her job and got the conviction. She also became electable.