Michelle Ferebee

At-large council member. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: At-Large Hampton City Council member, current term Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2026 (special-election remainder of Jimmy Gray's seat after Gray moved up to Mayor); won Nov 5, 2024 special election with 57.67%. Hampton council is officially nonpartisan; ballot label Independent. Will be on the ballot Nov 2026 for re-election per her campaign site. RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: explicitly discloses 'Active member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church' on her campaign About page — unusually direct religious disclosure for a nonpartisan Hampton candidate. HARD evidence: (1) APRIL 8, 2026 Hampton camping/sleeping-on-public-property ordinance passed 5-2 — Ferebee was one of the two NAMED NO votes (joined by Vice Mayor Steven Brown); she explained her NO on the record: 'After months of work, it represents a solution. But from our perspective, it's not the right solution.' Hampton NAACP opposed the ordinance. The ordinance is a Class 2 misdemeanor (up to 6 months / $1,000 fine) — public_justice q0 does NOT score her FALSE on this alone because the q0 bar is opposition to defunding/dismantling police, not opposition to a specific public-order ordinance; her NO appears framed in compassion/homelessness terms, not anti-LE terms. → public_justice q0 null. (2) FY26 Hampton budget May 2025 — Ferebee was in the 6-vote YES majority (Campbell lone NO); also asked specifically about grant-funded programs in the March 12, 2025 budget retreat — routine governance, NOT fiscal-restraint advocacy → economic_stewardship q2 null per the Wolfenbarger high-bar precedent. CAMPAIGN POSTURE: Issues page lists ONLY Livability / Technology & Innovation / Coastal Resilience — deliberately apolitical good-government profile with NO culture-war positioning in either direction. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity_of_life, biblical_marriage (Hampton sponsors Phabulous Phoebus Pride but Ferebee has no individual vote/statement on a proclamation, drag, or trans policy), family_child_sovereignty (no school-choice/parental-notification/CRT/SOGI statement; Hampton schools are a separate elected body), christian_liberty (open Catholic identity on campaign site is religious identification but not a public-square Christian-symbols/conscience-rights statement per the high bar — distinguish from Anton Bell's Sixth Commandment invocation in open court which earned christian_liberty q0 TRUE), economic_stewardship q2 (routine YES on a 6-1 budget is not fiscal-restraint advocacy), election_integrity, public_justice q1/q2/q3/q4 (camping NO is not in itself the contrary of any q0–q4 cell), refuse_state_overreach, border_immigration (Hampton rejected DHS sanctuary designation in May 2025 via Mayor Gray's letter; Ferebee made no individual statement), self_defense.