Sarah Umberger

Sarah Umberger is the Democratic candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, District 46, in the November 3, 2026 general election, challenging incumbent Republican Jeff Campbell.[1][3] A retired teacher, she said in a Ballotpedia survey that she is running to provide leadership that represents local needs both at home and in Charleston.[1][2]

Sarah Umberger grew up in Maryland, where she said in a Ballotpedia survey she spent her summers on a working dairy farm.[2] She left school without finishing high school and returned in her mid-twenties, and according to Ballotpedia she earned a bachelor's degree from Bluefield State College in 1984 and graduate degrees from the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies in 1988 and West Virginia University in 2002.[1][2] She worked as a teacher.[1]

Umberger said in the survey that her older son enlisted in the Army in 2001 and was deployed to Iraq in 2003, and that her husband is a Vietnam veteran.[2] She listed strengthening public education, ensuring a living wage and meeting community needs such as health care, child care and clean drinking water as her key messages.[2] On the Hope Scholarship, she said she supports parental choice but wants guardrails on participating schools and income caps on eligibility.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.