Jennifer L. McClellan

Democrat · VA-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Jennifer Leigh McClellan is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 9th district in the Virginia State Senate from 2017 to 2023 and the 71st district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2006 to 2017. She ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Virginia in the 2021 election, losing to former governor Terry McAuliffe.

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Record of service

In office: 3.5 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 360 of 437 by time served
Age: 53

District offices

Richmond, VA · 804-486-1840
Lawrenceville, VA · 804-690-5809

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2023

$1.8M

2024

$1.6M

2025

$2.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.7M – $3.7M
Liabilities: $410k – $900k
Net worth: $834k – $3.3M
Since 2023: +$262k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 16 assets reported

Verizon Savings Plan ⇒ Verizon 2025 Fund$500k – $1.0M

Residential Rental Property$250k – $500k

Fidelity Investment Account ⇒ Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)$250k – $500k

Verizon Savings Plan ⇒ Verizon Communications Inc. Common Stock (VZ)$250k – $500k

VRS Basic Group Life Natural Death Benefit$100k – $250k

Wells Fargo Custodian Traditional IRA ⇒ Allspring Growth Fund Class A (SGRAX)$100k – $250k

Wells Fargo Custodian Traditional IRA ⇒ Allspring Index Fund Class A$100k – $250k

Invesco Main Street Fund Class A$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo Custodian Traditional IRA ⇒ Allspring Opportunity Fund Class A (SOPVX)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo Custodian Traditional IRA ⇒ Allspring Special Small Cap Value Fund Class A$50k – $100k

VRS Plan 1$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo Custodian Traditional IRA ⇒ Allspring Core Bond Fund Class A$15k – $50k

Bank of America Savings Account$1k – $15k

Dave Mills LLC$1k – $15k

Truist Checking & Savings Accounts$1k – $15k

Verizon Savings Plan ⇒ MM Portfolio$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.45

Healthcare

D+0.60

Immigration & Border

D+0.92

Guns

D+0.79

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.79

Defense & Veterans

D+0.01

Economy & Labor

D+0.54

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.05

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.79

Education

D+0.94

Government & Democracy

D+0.86

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Jennifer L. McClellan's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

90%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Jennifer L. McClellan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where McClellansits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Communications and Technology Energy

Most and least aligned members

Treating McClellan's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.