Valdez (Val) Demings

Congresswoman Val Demings represented Florida’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023 (115th-117th Congresses). Demings served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness; Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support), the House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security; Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law), and the House Committee on Homeland Security (Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security). She was chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. In 2020, she broke another glass ceiling when she became one of the first women and Black American to prosecute a presidential impeachment before the U.S. Senate. Demings is a lifelong public servant, serving first as a social worker, then for 27 years with the Orlando Police Department (O.P.D.) before her election to Congress. She received a bachelor’s degree in Criminology and a master’s degree in Public Administration from Florida State University.