Comstock, Barbara, 1959-

Barbara Jean Comstock (née Burns; born June 30, 1959) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to two terms in Congress representing Virginia's 10th congressional district, serving from 2015 to 2019. From 2010 to 2014, Comstock was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, her family eventually moved to Houston, Texas, and she graduated from Westchester High School in 1977. She graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, in 1981, with a degree in political science. During college, she interned for Democratic Massachusetts Senator Edward Moore (Ted) Kennedy. But “as I went to the hearings,” she remembered, “I realized that I agreed more with the ideas that Orrin Hatch was talking about.” In 1982 Burns married her high school sweetheart Elwyn Charles (Chip) Comstock, a computer science teacher in McLean, Virginia, and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. After she completed law school in 1986, she entered private practice as an attorney. After working as a lawyer in private practice, Comstock served from 1991 to 1995 as a senior aide to Congressman Frank Wolf. Comstock then served as chief investigative counsel and senior counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform from 1995 to 1999, working as one of Washington's most prominent anti-Clinton opposition researchers.

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