Former Brevard County School Board member Jennifer Jenkins announced Wednesday that she will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Ashley Moody. “It was a nonpartisan race, but that’s not how the race was won by any means,” Jenkins added. School board battlesA native of Staten Island, New York, Jenkins moved with her family to Brevard after her father retired from a career in law enforcement. She graduated from the University of Central Florida and worked for years as a speech pathologist in the Brevard County School District until she opted to run for the school board in 2020. While she was elected twice statewide to serve as the state’s attorney general, Jenkins believes Moody remains an unknown quantity to many Floridians.