Ann-Frances Lambert is a Richmond native, born and raised in Northside’s Battery Park and Ginter Park neighborhoods. After graduating from Saint Gertrude High School, she earned a BA in Communications from Howard University. The daughter of the late Senator Benjamin J. Lambert, III, she obtained firsthand experience in politics by attending numerous political functions with him. She began her journey in public service in 1989 as a page in the Virginia General Assembly. In 2000, when she served as City Council liaison to current Del. Delores McQuinn (D-81). She later became the Senior Policy Analyst for the City of Richmond’s Intergovernmental Relations department. Currently, she is the Vice President of Richmond City Council, and the representative for the 3rd district in Richmond, Virginia. In addition, she currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Governmental Operations Standing Committee, member of the Land Use and Transportation Committee, and Chair of the Richmond Sister Cities Commission.

Lambert spent 10 years in California, before coming to Richmond to start a drone business and be with her family after the passing of her oldest brother Ben. After coming home, she felt compelled to return to public service and build on her father’s historic legacy. The late Senator Lambert was instrumental in the Innocence Project’s first success in Virginia, and in supporting funding for Virginia’s public schools and HBCUs. “My father was the person who showed me how to bring communities and people together,” Lambert said. “Now is the time to put those lessons into action.”