Regent University is a private Christian university in Virginia Beach,Virginia. It was founded by Pat Robertson in 1977 as Christian Broadcasting Network University and changed its name to Regent University in 1990. Regent offers on-campus programs as well as distance education. Regent offers associate,bachelor's,master's,and doctoral degrees in over 70 courses of study. The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Matoaca High School is a secondary school in the Matoaca community of unincorporated Chesterfield County,United States. This is the newer campus of the school;the old school campus was converted into a middle school,known currently as Matoaca Middle School. The school's mascot is the Warrior. Matoaca is well known for its sports and its technology specialty center.
Robert Francis McDonnell is an American politician,attorney,businessman,academic administrator,and former military officer who served as the 71st governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
Robert Creigh Deeds is an American lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Senate of Virginia representing the 25th district since 2001. Previously,he was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005 and Governor of Virginia in 2009. He was defeated in both of those races by Republican Bob McDonnell. Deeds lost by just 323 votes in 2005,but was defeated by a wide margin of over 17 percentage points in 2009. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2001.
Linwood Howard Rose was the fifth president of James Madison University in Harrisonburg,VA. Rose held 11 other positions at JMU before being named acting president in the fall of 1997,chief executive in September 1998,and being formally inaugurated on September 17,1999.
The 1920 Democratic National Convention was held at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco,California from June 28 to July 6,1920. It resulted in the nomination of Governor James M. Cox of Ohio for president and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt from New York for vice president. The 1920 Democratic National Convention marked the first time any party had held its nominating convention in a West Coast city.
Kay Coles James is an American public official who has served as secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia since January 2022,and as the director for the United States Office of Personnel Management under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. Previous to the OPM appointment,she served as Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources under then-Governor George Allen and was the dean of Regent University's government school. She is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute,a leadership training center for young African Americans.
Douglas William Domenech is an American government official who served as the Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. He is a former a George W. Bush administration political appointee who served in roles of Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Department of the Interior,and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior,as well as held a position on the White House Working Group on the Political Status of Puerto Rico.
Oliver Leon Robinson Jr is a retired American basketball player who played shooting guard for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.
Race to the Top was a $4.35 billion United States Department of Education competitive grant created to spur and reward innovation and reforms in state and local district K–12 education. Funded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,it was announced by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on July 24,2009. States competing for the grants were awarded points for enacting certain educational policies,instituting performance-based evaluations for teachers and principals based on multiple measures of educator effectiveness,adopting common standards,adopting policies that did not prohibit the expansion of high-quality charter schools,turning around the lowest-performing schools,and building and using data systems.
Donal Gerard O'Donnell,SC is an Irish judge who is the Chief Justice of Ireland since October 2021. He has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since January 2010. He practised as a barrister between 1982 and 2010,specialising in commercial law and public law.
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola is an American billionaire businessman and U.S. Army veteran. He was for several weeks President Donald Trump's nominee for United States Secretary of the Army,before withdrawing from consideration. He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX),and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers,a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team. He is also the owner of St. Elias Stables and co-owner,with fellow Brooklynite Anthony Bonomo,of the 2017 Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming.
Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) was a nonprofit group supporting school voucher and charter school programs in the United States. It was one of the largest pro-voucher groups. The group's mission was to "actively support parental choice to empower families and to increase quality educational options for Black children".
Levar Marcus Stoney is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the 80th mayor of Richmond,Virginia. He served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014 through 2016,the youngest member of Governor Terry McAuliffe's administration.
Richmond,Virginia,held a general election on November 8,2016. Voters elected the Mayor of Richmond,Virginia,members of the Richmond City Council,as well as several other local officials. In an officially nonpartisan,three-way race,Levar Stoney,the former state Secretary of the Commonwealth defeated Jack Berry,former Hanover County Administrator,and Joe Morrissey,former delegate of the Virginia House of Delegates. Former councilperson,Michelle Mosby,finished in a distant third. On January 1,2017,Stoney took office as the 80th mayor of Richmond,Virginia.
McDonnell v. United States,579 U.S. ___ (2016),was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the appeal of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell's conviction under the Hobbs Act. At issue on appeal was whether the definition of "official act" within the federal bribery statutes encompassed the actions for which McDonnell had been convicted and whether the jury had been properly instructed on this definition at trial.
Laura Worley Fornash is a former Virginia Secretary of Education,serving from 2011 to 2013 under Governor Bob McDonnell. Previously working as Virginia Tech's director of state government relations,she was appointed Deputy Secretary of Education in 2010 and was elevated to secretary upon the resignation of Gerard Robinson. She left in 2013 to take a position with the University of Virginia.
Javaid Edward Siddiqi is an American educator who served as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's Secretary of Education from November 2013 to January 2014. After attending Chesterfield County Public Schools from kindergarten until his graduation from Matoaca High School,he served for a number of years as a science teacher and school administrator in the district. In 2011,he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of Education and in 2013 was made Secretary. He served on the Chesterfield County school board,representing the Midlothian district until January 2020.
Carlos Genaro Muñiz is the chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 22,2019. Previously,he was General Counsel of the United States Department of Education.
The 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the next governor of Virginia. The election was concurrent with other elections for Virginia state offices. Incumbent Democratic Governor Ralph Northam was ineligible to run for re-election,as the Constitution of Virginia prohibits governors from serving consecutive terms. Businessman Glenn Youngkin won the Republican nomination at the party's May 8 convention,which was held in 37 polling locations across the state,and was officially declared the nominee on May 10. The Democratic Party held its primary election on June 8,which former Governor Terry McAuliffe easily won.
