Andrea Jenkins, born 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, is the first African-American transgender woman to be elected to public office in the U.S. She attended the University of Minnesota and afterwards was hired by the Hennepin County government where she worked for ten years.
She worked as an aide for Robert Lilligren who sat on the Minneapolis City Council for four years. Then she went to work for Elizabeth Glidden when she was elected to the city council. When Glidden announced she would not run for reelection, Jenkins announced she would run to represent Minneapolis' 8th Ward on the city council. She won the election on November 7, 2017 with more than 70% of the vote.
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