Kristin Farry
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Kristin Farry (Forward Party) ran for election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 72. She lost in the general election on November 4, 2025.
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Biography
Kristin Farry was born in Ohio. Farry served in the U.S. Air Force from 1982 to 1986. She earned a high school diploma from Madison County High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1980, a graduate degree from Princeton University in 1988, a Ph.D. from Rice University in 1995. Her career experience includes working as an engineer, farmer, pilot, writer, and business owner. As of 2025, Farry was affiliated with Trinity United Methodist Church in Amelia Court House, Virginia, the Women's Soaring Pilots Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2025
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 72
Incumbent Lee Ware defeated Randolph Critzer and Kristin Farry in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 72 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lee Ware (R) | 62.1 | 27,802 |
 | Randolph Critzer (D) | 36.1 | 16,152 | |
 | Kristin Farry (Forward Party)  | 1.9 | 839 | |
| Total votes: 44,793 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 72
Randolph Critzer defeated Bilal Raychouni in the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 72 on June 17, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Randolph Critzer | 60.6 | 2,818 |
 | Bilal Raychouni | 39.4 | 1,833 | |
| Total votes: 4,651 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Lee Ware advanced from the Republican primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 72.
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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I am a farmer, engineer, US Air Force veteran, author, pilot, and cancer survivor. I have been a business owner. I know what it’s like to rebuild a business after a major health crisis and loss of a health insurance underwriter, while caring for an ailing parent and trying to save the family farm—in a recession.
Being willing to tackle big problems has given me a lot of experience solving big problems. I helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. I cut hundreds of millions of dollars in waste from US defense programs. I served on a county finance committee during recovery from the Great Recession. I’ve been on federal air traffic control task forces. Problem solvers must be bridge builders. We must get all the stakeholders together and listen and build agreement on action—and act on the agreement.
I’m also comfortable in a barn or shop. For over five decades, I was part of a family farm operation in Madison, VA, raising sheep, cattle, corn, and hay. I managed major facility and environmental upgrades of the farm. I know healthy balance sheets save farms—and rural communities. Now retired in Amelia County, I write about the challenges facing our food system, farmers, and rural communities (SomeoneGrewThat.Farm).
District 72 has both rural and suburban communities. I will work to bridge our rural-urban and partisan divides. I will work hard to balance fiscal responsibility and business growth with compassion and community as we deal with major funding cuts.- Reduce Cost of Living relative to Income: Over a third of District 72 households are struggling to meet basic needs of housing, healthcare, groceries, transportation, childcare, and possibly eldercare. In rural areas, it’s half. We must reduce costs and increase access. We must rebuild our rural economy and protect our suburban economy from the job obsolescence threats similar to those that wrecked our rural economy decades ago. We must increase the housing supply and navigate major changes in federal safety-net funding. On the cost side, I will find ways to streamline and cut waste and abuse. On the supply side, I will champion small business and farms, reducing barriers to economic and income growth.
- Improve Education: In District 72, two counties have public schools “accredited with conditions” and student achievement is below state average. Throwing more money at schools without changing our approach hasn’t worked. Spending per student is not correlated with student achievement here. We must address schools as part of the entire community. Let’s integrate real-world career training throughout our curriculum, starting in middle school. Everyone should graduate from high school with immediately marketable skills, not just the students who don’t plan to go to college. College-bound students can then work their way through college without lots of debt. We must also address adult illiteracy and skills obsolescence.
- Return Power to Voters: Between my military service (Air Force) and civil service (Navy), I have taken six oaths to support and uphold the US Constitution. I ask you to give me the chance to take another oath to both the US and Virginia Constitutions. I am passionate about government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Unfortunately, voters’ voices are getting drowned out by huge campaign donations exploiting weaknesses in our election system. I will work to reform campaign finance, expand ranked choice voting, work for and honor term limits, empower local community and government problem solvers, and fight corruption. My Virginia Good Governance Score is 10/10. I will represent YOU, not parties and not corporations.
I am passionate about helping each citizen reach their full potential as our founders envisioned, with education and opportunities. Hard work and individual responsibility must be rewarded. I also believe that safe, strong, resilient communities are the launchpad for individuals’ success. In resilient communities, basic housing, transportation, groceries, education, and healthcare fit within the typical worker’s income. All that and childcare for a working family, too. A resilient community also can give you a hand up if you fall, because everyone experiences setbacks sometimes. I am passionate about our Constitution, rule of law, and voting privileges—these are our path to achieve both individual and community potential.
My mother was a huge influence on me. She nearly died of rheumatic fever as a child, but survived with heart damage. She was 5'2" tall, 95 pounds, and underage when she somehow convinced a recruiter to let her enlist in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942. Her blood pressure was below the official threshold, too. She became a combat medic and physical therapist and landed on a beach in Normandy in 1944 with 99 other young women ordered to beg, borrow, or steal a hospital for Allied wounded. They ended up taking care of both Allied and German wounded, as the retreating Axis forces abandoned their wounded. Her unit went into the Battle of Bulge, where she was injured while evacuating the wounded from the 761st (Black Panthers) tank battalion. She served as an officer in both the Army and the Air Force Women's Medical Service Corps after the war. Her patients included General Eisenhower. She went on to become a mother, head of physical therapy for a regional non-profit hospital, and a farmer. She also worked to integrate our county schools, because "it doesn't matter what color a man's skin is, he bleeds red when he's dying for his country." She's been gone a while--we buried her in Arlington Cemetery with my father--but not a day goes by that I don't draw some strength from her memory.
Among politicians, I think I admire President Eisenhower the most. My mother told me a lot about his humility and humour as her patient, and his wife Mamie volunteered in Mom's clinic at Wright-Patterson AFB whenever General Eisenhower came for a rehab stint.
Among politicians, I think I admire President Eisenhower the most. My mother told me a lot about his humility and humour as her patient, and his wife Mamie volunteered in Mom's clinic at Wright-Patterson AFB whenever General Eisenhower came for a rehab stint.
Personal integrity, concern for fellow citizens, willingness to listen to all stakeholders, dedication to upholding our US and State Constitutions, and commitment to rule of law.
Listening to constituents, understanding their problems, building teams of fellow legislators with the same interests, guiding the drafting laws to solve these problems, shepherding these laws through the legislative process, and keeping constituents informed of all of these activities.
My first job was farmhand on our family farm, but I was not paid for this work. My mother and I did most of the livestock care, while my father and brothers did most of the crop work. I loved the animals and seriously considered becoming a large animal veterinarian. Unfortunately, I was very small and people told me that I should try something less physical. So I ended up in engineering school just after University of Virginia opened its engineering school to women. Consequently, my first paying job was in college at University of Virginia, as a research assistant on the Uranium Gas Centrifuge project. I had that job for two years, I think. In the beginning, I did stuff like feed computer cards into the computers all night and copy results. I complained about being bored, so one of the researchers gave me the task of checking the mathematical derivations for the centrifuge. I actually had some math anxiety, and this was very hard. I had to learn a lot of math. After a few months, the researcher I was working for confessed that he'd given me this task as a joke, but the joke turned out to be on him, because he thought I'd quit in a day or two. But I stuck with it--after all, I had asked for a challenge. That "joke" probably changed the course of my life: I gained a lot of confidence in my ability to do something that no one else thought I could do. It opened a lot of doors, getting me into an elite graduation school. Grit and persistence get you a lot further than raw talent.
The Constitution assigns making laws and setting budgets to the legislature. It assigns executing (implementing) those laws within the allocated budget to the governor. We must work within our respective roles.
We face big cuts in federal safety net contributions in 2026, plus more administrative costs. Medicaid cuts exceed the total amount now received by able-bodied adults, so Medicaid work requirements won’t be enough. Also, Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies are ending. SNAP commitments are being shifted to the state. Privately-insured people and Medicare recipients in rural areas will suffer if their hospitals close from loss of Medicaid and ACA-insured patients. More rural residents will need help, because few rural jobs include health insurance. Trade wars will reduce farm export markets (remember 2018?), further straining rural economies. Moving money from other priorities is a bandaid on top of old bandaids. Eliminating fraud and waste is great, but we must also restructure and streamline our safety net programs to serve more truly needy people with fewer dollars. We must also make it easier for employers to create jobs with health insurance.
We also face infrastructure challenges. I bet my District is not the only one in Virginia where an entire town lacks drinkable tap water. Virginia is now importing more electricity than any other state (40% of our load) and residents of my District is facing a 15% rate increase this year. We must upgrade our electrical grid to enable more power sources. We must also be more careful about adding high-load newcomers like data centers.
We also face infrastructure challenges. I bet my District is not the only one in Virginia where an entire town lacks drinkable tap water. Virginia is now importing more electricity than any other state (40% of our load) and residents of my District is facing a 15% rate increase this year. We must upgrade our electrical grid to enable more power sources. We must also be more careful about adding high-load newcomers like data centers.
Yes, I expect that my military and other government work will help me help my constituents sooner. Private sector experience is also critical, but government laws and programs impact far more people than most private business decisions do. My experience on both sides has taught me to never make assumptions about other people and circumstances, find the people impacted, listen to them, collect quantitative data, build teams to solve problems, work with people from many different backgrounds, and implement solutions to complex problems.
Yes, relationships are critical. We must have civil and constructive conversations across the entire political spectrum.
I have had a couple of careers already and I am doing this to give back to the state that has done so much for me (especially education). I expect that serving a term or two in the House of Delegates will be enough.
One young lady working a cash register on a holiday told me that she had three jobs--and the main one was working as an instructional aid in the public school district. The school district job provided her with health insurance, but her deductibles and co-pays were too great for her school salary. She has a chronic health condition, but has stopped going to the doctor while she pays off medical debt. She'd like to get more education--maybe become a teacher--but has no money or time for school. She feels hopelessly stuck in a seven-day-a-work grind with deteriorating health.
Unfortunately, she's not alone. Over four out of five (82%) of our youngest workers (under 25 years) in Amelia County are below the (Asset-Limited Income-Constrained Employed (ALICE) Threshold. It’s about three of four (74%) young households in Chesterfield County. Three of five (59%) young Powhatan households are struggling. Almost half (48%) of Nottoway’s under 25 households are below this survival threshold. And—this is critical—the ALICE Survival Budget does NOT include career training or college tuition for a degree that will improve job prospects for that household! I know I struggled financially when I was young--I graduated into the stagflation of the late 1970s--but even then my purchasing power was far better than it is for youth today. I could see a way forward. The median purchasing power of a wage earner has increased about 50% since about 1980 (my own college graduation year), but the median home price is now five to six times what it was then after correcting for inflation. Childcare is now twice what it was then. So yes, it’s tougher for people starting out now to get traction on the road to the American Dream of a family and home. Small wonder that young people no longer see themselves in that picture.
Unfortunately, she's not alone. Over four out of five (82%) of our youngest workers (under 25 years) in Amelia County are below the (Asset-Limited Income-Constrained Employed (ALICE) Threshold. It’s about three of four (74%) young households in Chesterfield County. Three of five (59%) young Powhatan households are struggling. Almost half (48%) of Nottoway’s under 25 households are below this survival threshold. And—this is critical—the ALICE Survival Budget does NOT include career training or college tuition for a degree that will improve job prospects for that household! I know I struggled financially when I was young--I graduated into the stagflation of the late 1970s--but even then my purchasing power was far better than it is for youth today. I could see a way forward. The median purchasing power of a wage earner has increased about 50% since about 1980 (my own college graduation year), but the median home price is now five to six times what it was then after correcting for inflation. Childcare is now twice what it was then. So yes, it’s tougher for people starting out now to get traction on the road to the American Dream of a family and home. Small wonder that young people no longer see themselves in that picture.
This would depend on the emergency situation and the power(s) requested.
Probably an enhancement of Virginia's Freedom to Farm laws. Farmers are facing loss of their traditional commodity (eg, soybeans and poultry) markets here. They must have the freedom to shift their farm operations to other products quickly to save their farms.
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I would like to see this process added in Virginia. I have lived in states with this right and think it was on balance a good thing.
I would likely start with expanding ranked choice voting to primaries and all state and local offices, followed by a state proposal for an amendment to the US Constitution to overturn the Citizens United decision. Corporations are not people and should not be able to influence elections. I would then pursue a cleanup of the laws concerning the role of political action committees.
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2025 Elections
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Speaker of the House:Don Scott
Majority Leader:Charniele Herring
Minority Leader:Terry Kilgore
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Mark Sickles (D)
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Delores Oates (R)
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Tony Wilt (R)
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Chris Runion (R)
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Ellen Campbell (R)
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Terry Austin (R)
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Chris Obenshain (R)
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Lee Ware (R)
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