Sally Hudson is an economist and former Virginia state legislator. She served Charlottesville and Albemarle County for two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, where she authored the law that now allows Virginia cities and counties to use ranked choice voting in their local elections. Since the law took effect in 2021, both Arlington County and Charlottesville City have held RCV elections, with support from Ranked Choice Virginia, which Hudson founded to assist Virginia communities with voter education and RCV implementation.  

Prior to her legislative service, Hudson started her career as an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, where she now serves as a Practitioner Fellow at UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy. Hudson earned her PhD in economics as a National Science Foundation fellow at MIT and completed her bachelor's degree at Stanford University.