Abigail Spanberger investigated money laundering and narcotics distribution for the US Postal Inspection Service. Her constituents have been intrigued by her subsequent work with the CIA. She was an operations officer. She collected intelligence while living overseas. She recruited and managed assets. She was an American spy.

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.

Elaine lLuria served for 20 years as a Surface Warfare Officer and nuclear engineer. She participated in and conducted operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific on destroyers, cruisers, and aircraft carriers. She enforced sanctions - boarding Iraqi oil smugglers in the Arabian Gulf. She launched jets off the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean - striking Iraq and Afghanistan. She was in charge of nuclear reactors, was second in command of a guided missile cruiser, was in command of a combat-ready unit of 400 sailors to provide assault craft in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Luria stepped in as the Democratic candidate in when another candidate had to drop out for personal reasons. She has that candidate's full support.