Dianne L. Blais
Green · VA
Dianne L. Blais is a peace activist who convenes the Jane Addams branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and has hosted over 100 foster children. Her priorities are cutting war spending and a domestic agenda that includes Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage.
Where Dianne L. Blais stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (1 record), Peaceful Foreign Policy (4 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 1 support
Joined a rally in Washington, DC, demanding that the EPA act on toxic contamination that sickens children. She attended as a WILPF US board member.
September 20, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: wilpfus.org
Track record — Peaceful Foreign Policy
Peaceful Foreign Policy · 4 support
Visited 18 U.S. Senate offices in October 2025 as a co-chair of WILPF's disarmament committee. She lobbied against renewed nuclear weapons testing and for new arms-control talks with Russia.
October 28, 2025Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: wilpfus.org
Protested outside the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of weapons makers Raytheon and Boeing, holding signs, as a WILPF disarmament committee member.
October 14, 2024Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: wilpfus.org
Traveled to Nicaragua with a 22-woman delegation to study women's lives there. The delegation then backed lifting U.S. sanctions on Nicaragua.
January 16, 2023Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: wilpfus.org
Picketed in front of the White House against U.S. nuclear weapons policy. The protest called for taking missiles off hair-trigger alert and moving military money to human needs.
October 14, 2022Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: wilpfus.org
Track record — General
General · 5 records
Served as national secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom US (WILPF US), a peace group. She recruited members for its committees.
June 14, 2022
Source: wilpfus.org
Lost the 2014 general election for U.S. House in Virginia's 10th District with 946 votes (0.4%), on the Independent Green line. Republican Barbara Comstock won with 125,914 votes.
November 4, 2014
Source: historical.elections.virginia.gov
Ran as an independent for Virginia House of Delegates District 40 and lost to incumbent Tim Hugo. She got 4,021 votes (25.7%) to his 11,565 (73.9%), per the official state results.
November 8, 2011
Source: historical.elections.virginia.gov
Worked as vice president of a small contract-billing company until the company closed in 2010, according to a local news profile.
August 18, 2011
Source: patch.com
Served as co-president of AAUW of Virginia (American Association of University Women) from 2008 to 2010. At the April 2010 state convention she was named a co-vice president for public policy.
April 24, 2010
Source: aauw-va.aauw.net
Past race Dianne L. Blais ran in:
- United States Representative, Congressional District 11 · November 3, 2026 · Congressional District 11, Virginia