Sammi Brown

Brown was born and raised in Charles Town, West Virginia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communication and a Master of Business Administration in marketing from Shepherd University.^[2]

From 2009 to 2014, Brown worked in production and public relations for several and television and radio stations, including WDVM-TV, WSHC, and WIHT. In 2014, she became a campaign coordinator for the West Virginia chapter of the AFL–CIO. From 2016 to 2017, she was the director of marketing and communications at Geostellar, a solar energy company. In 2017 and 2018, she was the federal campaigns director for the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition. She has also worked as a trainer for the National Democratic Training Committee.

In 2016, Brown ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates.^[3][4] She rain again in 2018 defeating incumbent Jill Upson, and assumed office on November 30, 2018.^[5] In her 2020 re-election campaign, Brown was narrowly defeated by Republican nominee Wayne Clark.^[6]