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First Openly Gay Member of Norfolk City Council

Nicole Carry

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - The city council of Norfolk will welcome its first openly gay council member at its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday.

The Virginian-Pilot newspaper reports that 46-year-old Nicole Carry is also believed to be the council's first Navy veteran in recent history.

The assignment will be temporary. Carry replaces a member who had to resign because he ran for mayor, unsuccessfully, earlier this year.

Carry will serve for less than two months before a special election allows voters to choose a permanent member. She has no plans to run for the seat.

Council members picked Carry from a pool of seven candidates. She's an information-technology consultant who's lived in Norfolk for more than 20 years. She served in the Navy during the 1990s.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.