Amanda Chase (1 December 1969-) was a Republican member of the Virginia Senate from the 11th district from 13 January 2016 to January 2024, succeeding Steve Martin.
Biography[]
Amanda Freeman was born in Sheffield, Alabama in 1969, and she moved to Chesterfield County, Virginia at the age of ten. She founded a campaign management firm and worked as a financial services contractor, and, in 2015, she was elected to the State Senate from a heavily-Republican district which included Amelia County, Colonial Heights, and Chesterfield. She became known as one of the most far-right members of the State Senate, describing herself as "Trump in heels", claiming that the Democratitc Party hated white people, marching with the Boogaloo Boys in Richmond while carrying an AR-15, claiming that "naive and unprepared" people were the ones who ended up raped, opposed the concept of Indigenous People's Day, was "sickened" by Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict, supported Confederate statues and called their removals attacks on "white history", refused to wear a face mask during COVID-19 (leading to her being confined to a plexiglass box during Senate sessions), supported the declaration of martial law after Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, and called the insurrectionists who took part in the 2021 United States coup d'etat attempt "patriots". In 2021, she ran for Governor of Virginia, but she lost to the more moderate Glenn Youngkin. In June 2023, she lost renomination for her Senate seat, losing to Glen Sturtevant.