Jeff Quiggle (He/Him)

Jeffrey is a US Air Force veteran and a 1987 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Jeffrey served as an intelligence officer during his Air Force career, including tours in the Philippines and Japan. After leaving the Air Force in 1997, Jeffrey worked as a software consultant and focused on work, and with his wife Cathryn, raising his family.

That changed with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Spurred to action by the Muslim ban in January 2017, Jeffrey along with Cathryn joined hundreds of others at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to protest the ban and support Muslims detained in immigration at the airport as a result of the ban.
This first protest led Jeffrey to more political activism. In 2018 he attended his first state Democratic convention, and afterwards joined several local campaigns as a volunteer. He helped to organize Texas veterans to support then candidate for US Senate, Beto O’Rourke, by co-founding “Veterans for Beto,” a statewide grassroots group that worked closely with the campaign. Canvassing while identifying as a military veteran was an eye-opening experience. Jeffrey realized that veterans have a super power: people not open to other viewpoints will often listen to a veteran.

During that campaign, Jeffrey met several members of Common Defense, who introduced him to the organization. Jeffrey attended the then-weekly national calls and took part in several actions; he attended Common Defense’s activist training program, Veterans Organizing Institute, in 2019.
Jeffrey continues to organize like-minded veterans. He recently managed an Army veteran’s campaign for the Delaware statehouse, and helped to organize the Delaware Democratic Veterans Caucus. Jeffrey recently relocated from Texas along with his wife Cathryn and daughter Gillian to Delaware; his son Brendan continues to attend college in Texas.