Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger wasn’t the only statewide candidate who made history on Tuesday night. The first woman to lead the commonwealth’s government will be joined in Richmond by fellow Democrats who proved themselves to be trailblazers in their own right.

Virginia voters elected state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi as the next lieutenant governor and former Del. Jay Jones as the next attorney general. Hashmi, an Indian American, is the first Muslim to win any statewide office in the nation, while Jones will be Virginia’s first Black attorney general.

Like Spanberger, whose Tuesday win broke a glass ceiling in place throughout the commonwealth’s 400-year history, Hashmi and Jones should be proud to have opened these doors to future generations, thoug

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