The Virgin Islands just did something it had never done. After 56 years of electing governors, voters chose a woman for the job, and her name is Stacey Plaskett.
On Tuesday night, Nov. 3, she and running mate Milton Potter took the governor’s race with roughly 62.8% of the vote. Plaskett reportedly carried all 20 voting precincts across St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John.
Plaskett, who will become the first Black woman to govern a U.S. territory, was also elected on the same night Keisha Lance Bottoms made history in Georgia as the first Black woman elected governor of a state…