Omeish and Heizer, along with incumbent Karen Keys-Gamarra, beat three opponents for the At-Large seats.
Heizer has worked as a college professor, disability justice advocate and lawyer, according to her campaign website. Omeish is the co-founder of Give, a youth-led nonprofit and led the county-wide campaign for an anti-bullying campaign, according to her campaign website.
Read MoreThe oath of office remains the same, but the school board sworn in at Luther Jackson Middle School on Dec. 12 is not quite like any board seen in Fairfax County before.
11 of the 12 people who stepped up to the microphone at the front of Jackson’s auditorium to take the oath administered by Fairfax County Circuit Court Chief Judge Bruce D. White were women, four of them women of color…
At-large member Abrar Omeish is both the youngest person ever elected to the school board at 24 years old and the first Muslim woman to serve on the board. She wore a hijab and carried a Quran in one hand when taking the oath.
Read MoreAmong the big November winners were Democrats Ghazala Hashmi and Abrar Omeish who became the first Muslim women elected in their respective posts. Hashmi unseated Virginia State Republican Senator Glen Sturtevant.
‘This victory is not mine alone. It belongs to all of you who believed that we needed to make a progressive change here in Virginia, for all of you who felt that you haven’t had a voice and believed in me to be yours in the General Assembly,’ Hashmi tweeted.
Omeish clinched one of three vacant seats on the Fairfax County School Board.
“Abrar’s campaign worked hard to elevate young voices and those of underserved and underrepresented communities, proactively reaching out to constituencies who have otherwise not been engaged by registering 1,500 new voters and training hundreds of new volunteers,” Omeish’s campaign said in a statement celebrating her victory to an at-large seat
Read MoreAnother Muslim woman, Abrar Omeish, made history Tuesday when she was elected to the Fairfax County School Board. At 24 years old, Omeish is both the youngest woman and along with Hashmi, one of the first Muslim women, to hold office in Virginia. Omeish's staff featured 13 high school students working on field operations and policy.
Omeish grew up in Fairfax and is a graduate of Yale University. She wants to implement universal Pre-K and prioritize mental health care in schools.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, four Muslim women from Virginia to Maine to Minnesota won elections and made history as the first to ever hold those positions. In Virginia, there were two wins. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim woman ever elected to the Virginia State Senate, defeating an incumbent Republican in a red district. While Abrar Omeish, 24, was elected to the Fairfax County School Board, making her not just the first Muslim but, as she told me, the first person of Libyan heritage she believes ever elected to office in the United States.
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