Virginia Foxx

Virginia Foxx was born in New York, New York, on June 29, 1943, and graduated from Crossnore High School in Crossnore, North Carolina, in 1961. She earned an A.B. in 1968 and an M.A.C.T. in 1972 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1985. She was an instructor at Caldwell Community College, an instructor and assistant dean at Appalachian State University, and president of Mayland Community College from 1987 to 1994. She also owned a landscape nursery and was deputy secretary for management in the North Carolina Department of Administration.

Foxx served on the Watauga County board of education from 1976 to 1988 and in the North Carolina state senate from 1994 to 2004. She was elected as a Republican to the House and has served since January 3, 2005. She chaired the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the 115th and 118th Congresses and chairs the Committee on Rules in the 119th Congress. She also sits on the Education and Workforce and Oversight and Government Reform committees.