Misty Snow

Misty Snow
Personal details
Born (1985-07-19) July 19, 1985 (age 39)
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic

Misty Kathrine Snow (born July 19, 1985)[1] is an American political candidate who was one of the first openly transgender people in the United States to have been nominated by a major political party for a federal office.[2][3] Snow was the Democratic nominee in the 2016 United States Senate election in Utah. This also made her the first transgender person to become a nominee for the United States Senate as well as the first LGBT person to be a major-party nominee for statewide office in Utah.[4][5]

  1. ^ Scheer, Robert (October 9, 2016). "Misty K. Snow, the First Major-Party Transgender Nominee for U.S. Senate". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on October 23, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Signorile, Michelangelo (July 10, 2016). "The First Trans U.S. Senate Candidate Is Already Making History". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Phillips, Amber (June 29, 2016). "Two transgender candidates — both named Misty — just made history by winning primaries". Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  4. ^ "Two transgender candidates named Misty nominated in Colorado, Utah primaries". FOXNews.com. FOX News Network. June 29, 2016. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Canham, Matt (June 28, 2016). "Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Democrats' transgender Senate nominee". The Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.