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Anne Holton, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, joined four other Virginia first ladies in Richmond on Thursday at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia to urge women to turn out for Hillary Clinton and Kaine on Election Day.

Holton, Virginia’s first lady from 2006 to 2010, also has been a legal aid lawyer, a Richmond juvenile court judge and secretary of education under current Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

She told of watching Clinton visit with a woman who drove the charter bus that carried Clinton and Kaine through Pennsylvania and Ohio after the Democratic National Convention. During a break, the bus driver used FaceTime on her phone to check in with her children in Georgia.

Holton said that when the bus driver got off the phone, Clinton struck up a conversation with the woman about work-family balance and how sick leave policy could help.

“That’s our working woman president,” Holton said.

The event kicked off “Women for Action,” a group of Virginia women who will push turnout for Clinton and Kaine in the Nov. 8 election.

Virginia’s current first lady, Dorothy McAuliffe, said, “It’s just going to be so exciting to have a career child advocate in the White House.”