Virginia’s Ghazala Hashmi becomes first Muslim elected statewide in the Old Dominion

The Fox News Decision Desk has projected that Democratic state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi will become the next lieutenant governor of Virginia. Hashmi was born in Hyderabad, India, grew up in Georgia and represented Chesterfield County in the Virginia state Senate in her most recent public role.She has a doctorate in American literature from Emory University, and her campaign repeatedly highlighted her curriculum vitae as a public educator.She was a professor at the University of Richmond and the nearby J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College, where she was the first director of its Center for Excelle