Joey Lucas

Josephine Lucas
First appearance	"Take This Sabbath Day"
Last appearance	"Requiem" (cameo)
Created by	Aaron Sorkin, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jr., and Paul Redford
Portrayed by	Marlee Matlin
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Occupation	O'Dwyer Campaign Manager (Season 1), Pollster/Political Consultant (Seasons 1–7)
Children	At least one

Josephine "Joey" Lucas, is a fictional character on the television serial drama The West Wing, a California-based pollster and political operative played by Marlee Matlin. She is one of the few non-main characters to appear in all seven seasons.

Joey is an expert political pollster who is frequently called upon by President Josiah Bartlet's senior staff to administer national polls and interpret polling data. Joey is a native of California and attended UCLA and Stanford, though the degrees she received from each are unknown. Since she is deaf (as is Matlin in real life), she is usually accompanied by her interpreter, Kenny Thurman (portrayed by Bill O'Brien).

Joey once ran the campaign of Californian Democratic candidate for Congress Bill O'Dwyer until the President dismissed O'Dwyer as an "empty shirt" and suggested that Joey find another, better candidate to challenge the conservative Republican currently holding the seat. She also worked with and dated fellow pollster Al Kiefer (John de Lancie); Josh and Toby could not stand him and were won over by Joey largely because she was able to prove him wrong on a flag-burning issue.

In the second season of the show, Joey was brought in by then Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman to do initial polling on potential public reaction to President Bartlet's disclosure that he had multiple sclerosis. She was the 21st person to learn of the President's disease. She continued working intermittently for the Bartlet administration, most notably before several of his State of the Union speeches. In the fifth season, when Josh wants to start a relationship with Joey she walks into the West Wing and we find out she is pregnant.

Following Congressman Matt Santos's decision to run for president, she worked as a consultant for the campaign, both before and after he was the Democratic nominee for president.

Relationship with Josh Lyman

Late in the first season it became clear that former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman was attracted to Joey. Josh was discouraged when he got wind of Joey's brief fling with Al Kiefer.

In the second season Joey suggested that Josh pursue a relationship with his assistant, Donnatella Moss, responding to Moss's attempts at misdirection in advocating a relationship between her boss and Joey Lucas. The flirtation between Joey and Josh was one of the series' subplots.

Season 1	"Pilot" "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" "A Proportional Response" "Five Votes Down" "The Crackpots and These Women" "Mr. Willis of Ohio" "The State Dinner" "Enemies" "The Short List" "In Excelsis Deo" "Lord John Marbury" "He Shall, from Time to Time..." "Take out the Trash Day" "Take This Sabbath Day" "Celestial Navigation" "20 Hours in L.A." "The White House Pro-Am" "Six Meetings Before Lunch" "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" "Mandatory Minimums" "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" "What Kind of Day Has It Been"

Season 2	"In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I" "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II" "The Midterms" "In This White House" "And It's Surely to Their Credit" "The Lame Duck Congress" "The Portland Trip" "Shibboleth" "Galileo" "Noël" "The Leadership Breakfast" "The Drop-In" "Bartlet's Third State of the Union" "The War at Home" "Ellie" "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" "The Stackhouse Filibuster" "17 People" "Bad Moon Rising" "The Fall's Gonna Kill You" "18th and Potomac" "Two Cathedrals"

Season 3	"Isaac and Ishmael" "Manchester, Part I" "Manchester, Part II" "Ways and Means" "On the Day Before" "War Crimes" "Gone Quiet" "The Indians in the Lobby" "The Women of Qumar" "Bartlet for America" "H. Con-172" "100,000 Airplanes" "The Two Bartlets" "Night Five" "Hartsfield's Landing" "Dead Irish Writers" "The U.S. Poet Laureate" "Stirred" "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" "The Black Vera Wang" "We Killed Yamamoto" "Posse Comitatus"

Season 4	"20 Hours in America, Part I" "20 Hours in America, Part II" "College Kids" "The Red Mass" "Debate Camp" "Game On" "Election Night" "Process Stories" "Swiss Diplomacy" "Arctic Radar" "Holy Night" "Guns Not Butter" "The Long Goodbye" "Inauguration, Part I" "Inauguration: Over There" "The California 47th" "Red Haven's on Fire" "Privateers" "Angel Maintenance" "Evidence of Things Not Seen" "Life on Mars" "Commencement" "Twenty Five"

Season 5	"7A WF 83429" "The Dogs of War" "Jefferson Lives" "Han" "Constituency of One" "Disaster Relief" "Separation of Powers" "Shutdown" "Abu el Banat" "The Stormy Present" "The Benign Prerogative" "Slow News Day" "The Warfare of Genghis Khan" "An Khe" "Full Disclosure" "Eppur Si Muove" "The Supremes" "Access" "Talking Points" "No Exit" "Gaza" "Memorial Day"

Season 6	"NSF Thurmont" "The Birnam Wood" "Third-Day Story" "Liftoff" "The Hubbert Peak" "The Dover Test" "A Change Is Gonna Come" "In the Room" "Impact Winter" "Faith Based Initiative" "Opposition Research" "365 Days" "King Corn" "The Wake Up Call" "Freedonia" "Drought Conditions" "A Good Day" "La Palabra" "Ninety Miles Away" "In God We Trust" "Things Fall Apart" "2162 Votes"

Season 7	"The Ticket" "The Mommy Problem" "Message of the Week" "Mr. Frost" "Here Today" "The Al Smith Dinner" "The Debate" "Undecideds" "The Wedding" "Running Mates" "Internal Displacement" "Duck and Cover" "The Cold" "Two Weeks Out" "Welcome to Wherever You Are" "Election Day" "Election Day Part II" "Requiem" "Transition" "The Last Hurrah" "Institutional Memory" "Tomorrow"

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Joey Lucas

Relationship with Josh Lyman

See also