Democrat · Florida's 26th District · 2026
Nicole Locklin
Locklin captained her high school basketball team in a small Oklahoma farming town and became the first in her family to graduate from college.
Biography
Nicole Locklin grew up in an Oklahoma farming town with fewer than a thousand residents, the middle child of three.1 She was her high school's basketball captain, student council president and valedictorian, and became the first in her family to graduate from college when she completed the University of Oklahoma in 2009.1
After working at a San Francisco startup and spending time back home, she took a solo backpacking trip through seventeen countries before beginning law school.1 She graduated from Santa Clara's law school in 2015, earning an honors certificate in high technology law.1
Her legal work began in professional liability defense, representing lawyers in malpractice and other complex litigation, and later moved into technology, including roles at Nextdoor and as lead counsel at Databricks.1 She and her husband, Chris, married in Miami in 2021 and moved there full time in 2024, when he joined the Miami Dolphins organization.1
Locklin's platform includes a congressional stock trading ban, affordable housing, consumer protections against excessive prices and an expansion toward universal health coverage.2 She supports restoring nationwide abortion rights and protecting Social Security and Medicare against benefit cuts, privatization and a higher retirement age.2 She is the Democratic nominee facing Republican Mario Díaz-Balart.3