Jordan Herrera

After nearly sixteen years in the Air Force, Jordan Herrera faced the civilian tasks of finding health insurance and navigating job interviews.¹ His service took him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey and Germany.¹ He grew up in a working family in the Midwest.²

Herrera entered Southwestern Law School's SCALE program in June 2022.¹ That December, the school profiled him as a student representative on its curriculum and admissions committees and a representative for the Intellectual Property Law Society.¹ At the time, he described classmates who greeted each other warmly and hugged goodbye, likening the cohort to his Air Force community.¹ He subsequently became an attorney and worked as an assistant attorney general in Missouri.²

He initially sought the Fifth Congressional District seat before moving his campaign to the Fourth during Missouri's redistricting fight.³ He won the Democratic primary and now faces Republican incumbent Mark Alford and Libertarian Thomas Holbrook, having never held elected office.³

His campaign emphasizes making housing, health care and everyday necessities more affordable, supporting veterans and improving government accountability.² He also calls for reducing monopoly power in agriculture and reforming student loans.³ Herrera supports abortion access and marriage equality.³ On foreign policy, he has called for ending the war in Iran and supports continued assistance to Israel with restrictions.³