Shelley Moore Capito

Shelley Moore Capito and her husband, Charlie, live in Charleston and have three adult children and nine grandchildren.¹ She grew up in Glen Dale, the daughter of former Governor Arch Moore Jr.² Her studies took her from zoology at Duke to a master's degree in education at the University of Virginia.¹

Before elected office, Capito worked as a college counselor and adviser at West Virginia State College, including with students who were the first in their families to attend college.² She also directed the West Virginia Board of Regents' Educational Information Center.² Four years in the state House and fourteen in the U.S. House preceded her 2014 Senate election.¹

Capito coauthored water and transportation provisions incorporated into the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.³⁴ With Democrat Jack Reed, she also introduced the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, signed into law in 2018 to support research and care for survivors.⁵ She now chairs Environment and Public Works and the Senate Republican Policy Committee.¹

Her current agenda emphasizes reliable energy production, manufacturing jobs, broadband expansion and infrastructure investment.¹ Her Labor and Health and Human Services appropriations role also gives her responsibility for federal education and health spending.¹ She faces Democrat Rachel Fetty Anderson on November 3, seeking another term after first entering the Senate in 2015.⁶¹