Winsome Sears is an American politician serving as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia. A member of the Republican Party,Sears served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004. She also served on the Virginia Board of Education,and she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia's 3rd congressional district in 2004 and for U.S. Senate in 2018. In 2021,Sears was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia.
William Troy Bolling is an American businessman,politician and educator who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
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.
Kay Coles James is an American public official who served as secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2022 to August 2023,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.
Anne Bright Holton is an American lawyer and judge who served as the Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014 to 2016. She is married to United States Senator and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine,the vice presidential running mate of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Jennifer Leigh McClellan is an American politician and attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented the 9th district in the Virginia State Senate from 2017 to 2023 and the 71st district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2009 to 2017. She ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Virginia in the 2021 election,losing to former governor Terry McAuliffe.
Terence Richard McAuliffe is an American businessman and politician who served as the 72nd governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,he was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign,chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
Kathy J. Byron is an American politician. She was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1997 as a Republican,representing the 22nd district in the Virginia Piedmont,consisting of parts of Bedford,Campbell and Franklin Counties and the city of Lynchburg. In September 2023,Byron resigned from the Virginia House after being appointed as Deputy Director for External Affairs at the Virginia Department of Workforce Development and Advancement.
William Cleveland Mims is a former senior justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia,United States. He is a former member of the Virginia General Assembly and Attorney General of Virginia. He is the second person in Virginia history to serve in these three offices. He presently is a lecturer and director of the pre-law program at Christopher Newport University.
The 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 5,2013,to elect the governor of Virginia. The incumbent governor,Republican Bob McDonnell,was not eligible to run for re-election due to term limits established by the Virginia Constitution. Virginia is the only state that prohibits its governor from serving immediate successive terms.
David-Imad Ramadan is a Lebanese-born American politician and businessman. He is a former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 87th district in Loudoun and Prince William counties from 2012 to 2016. He opted not to seek re-election in 2015,and was succeeded by his 2013 opponent,Democrat John J. Bell.
Levar Marcus Stoney is an American politician who has served as the 80th mayor of Richmond,Virginia since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014 through 2016,being the youngest member of Governor Terry McAuliffe's administration.
Marla Graff Decker is Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. She was appointed as a judge of the Court on October 1,2013 by Governor Bob McDonnell and took office a month later. From 2010 until her swearing in as a judge,she was the Secretary of Public Safety in Governor McDonnell's cabinet. Judge Graff was elected to a four-year term Chief Judge of the Court in 2019,succeeding Judge Glen A. Huff. Because Chief Judge Graff's term expires in 2021,she will need to be reappointed to the Court by the General Assembly,which is now controlled by the Democratic Party,in order to complete her term as Chief Judge.
Todd Patterson Haymore is an American civil servant who served as Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade in the administration of Governor Terry McAuliffe. He previously served as the Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry under Governor Bob McDonnell and Terry McAuliffe. Prior to these two posts,he served in then-Governor Tim Kaine's administration in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Lisa Michelle Hicks-Thomas is a former Secretary of Administration of the Commonwealth of Virginia,serving under Governor Bob McDonnell. She was formerly a state deputy attorney general from 2007 to 2010 and assistant commonwealth's attorney in her native Chesapeake.
William Andrew Hazel,Jr. is an American politician and surgeon. He was the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources,first appointed in 2010 by Governor Bob McDonnell and was reappointed in 2014 by Governor Terry McAuliffe. He served previously as assistant orthopedic surgeon for the Washington Redskins and as team physician for D.C. United soccer club;he was also a member of the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees.
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.
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.
Glenn Allen Youngkin is an American businessman and politician serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party,he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group,where he became co-CEO in 2018. He resigned from the position in 2020 to run for governor.
