About me
Sally Hudson is an economist and former state legislator who served Charlottesville and Albemarle for two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates. As a member of the General Assembly, Hudson led bipartisan legislative campaigns in election law, housing, workforce development, and consumer protection.
An economist by training, Hudson started her career on the faculty at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She later served as a fellow at UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy conducting research on the history of voter suppression and local election reform in Virginia. As a member of Virginia's bipartsisan State Board of Elections, Hudson works to ensure fair, secure, and accurate elections for all Virginia voters. She also founded and directs Ranked Choice Virginia, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that supports localities across Virginia in adopting ranked choice voting. Hudson studied economics and mathematics at Stanford and earned her PhD in economics as a National Science Foundation fellow at MIT.
