Christopher Deluzio is a Navy veteran and voting rights attorney who won his seat in 2022 after serving as policy director for the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. A former nuclear engineer on submarines, he has made election security and cybersecurity central to his legislative agenda, drawing on his military background and legal expertise. Deluzio has positioned himself as a pragmatic Democrat focused on protecting democratic institutions while advocating for working-class families in his western Pennsylvania district.