1. Stacey Elizabeth Plaskett is an American politician and attorney serving since 2015 as the delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district.
34 Facts About Stacey Plaskett
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Stacey Plaskett switched to the Democratic Party in late 2008 because she believed it was a better place to have new ideas heard.
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Stacey Plaskett served as a House manager during the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the first non-voting House member to do so.
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Stacey Plaskett was born on May 13,1966, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Bushwick housing projects.
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Stacey Plaskett's parents are both from Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands.
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Stacey Plaskett's father was a New York City Police Department officer and her mother a clerk in the court system.
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Stacey Plaskett attended Brooklyn Friends School and Grace Lutheran Elementary.
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Stacey Plaskett was a boarding student at Choate Rosemary Hall, where she was a varsity athlete and served as class president for several years.
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Stacey Plaskett spent a term abroad in France during her enrollment at Choate.
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Stacey Plaskett has said that Choate awakened her commitment to public service and a deep sense of responsibility to others through the biblical verse "to whom much is given; much is required".
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Stacey Plaskett was one of few black students while she attended the school.
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Stacey Plaskett ran for student government at Georgetown under a progressive student ticket and was very active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
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Stacey Plaskett received her JD degree from the American University Washington College of Law in 1994.
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Stacey Plaskett attended law school at night while working full-time during the day with the lobbying arm of the American Medical Association and then with the law firm Jones Day.
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Stacey Plaskett prosecuted several hundred cases, including in the Narcotics Bureau.
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Stacey Plaskett then worked as a consultant and legal counsel focused on internal corporate investigations and strategy for the Mitchell Madison Group.
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Stacey Plaskett moved to Washington, DC, and worked as counsel on the Republican-led US House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, now known as the House Committee on Ethics or the Ethics Committee.
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Stacey Plaskett left the Committee when she was asked by mentor and fellow trustee at Choate, Robert McCallum, to work at the United States Department of Justice as a political appointee of then-President George W Bush.
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Stacey Plaskett accepted the offer and served as counsel for the assistant attorney general for the DOJ Civil Division, and as acting deputy assistant attorney general for the Torts Branch in the Civil Division.
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Stacey Plaskett then joined the staff of Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, primarily working on the Justice Honors program and an initiative to increase the number of minority and women attorneys at the Justice Department.
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Stacey Plaskett later left government service to become a deputy general counsel at UnitedHealth Group.
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Stacey Plaskett then moved to the Virgin Islands, where she worked in private practice and from 2007 to 2014 served as general counsel for the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, charged with the economic development of the US territory.
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Stacey Plaskett switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in late 2008.
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Stacey Plaskett was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2019.
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In January 2025, Stacey Plaskett protested the non-voting rights in Congress for the five delegates and one resident commissioner for the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, and denounced US colonialism in these territories.
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In 2012, Stacey Plaskett challenged nine-term delegate Donna Christian-Christensen in the Democratic Party primary.
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In 2014, Stacey Plaskett ran for the office again, after formally declaring her candidacy in November 2013.
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Stacey Plaskett was challenged in the Democratic primary by former Virgin Islands Senator Ronald Russell.
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Stacey Plaskett won reelection unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.
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On January 12,2021, Stacey Plaskett was named a House impeachment manager for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in response to the storming of the United States Capitol on January 6,2021.
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On February 2,2023, Stacey Plaskett was appointed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the Ranking Member of the United States House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
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Stacey Plaskett is married to Jonathan Buckney Small, a community activist and former professional tennis player.
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Stacey Plaskett has five children, four of them with Andre Duffy, her previous husband.
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Stacey Plaskett has served on numerous nonprofit boards focused primarily on education, culture, and community development.