Carrie Walls of Ashburn won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery's special drawing.
The lottery says she picked up her winnings of a Ford Expedition and a $100,000 check on Friday. There were over 550,000 entries in the drawing.
The drawing happened in December before the government shutdown.
Still, a lottery release has Walls saying the cash prize was particularly timely because her husband is a federal worker currently furloughed in the shutdown.
His name wasn't released. Walls herself spent over a decade in the U.S. Air Force.