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Virginia’s Eighth Congressional District consists of the City of Alexandria, the City of Falls Church, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County (including portions of 6 of the 9 Magisterial Districts: Dranesville, Lee, Hunter Mill, Mason, Providence, and Mount Vernon).

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8th CD Members 35 current voting members, last updated 3.21.2011

Results of the 2009 Convention (May 16th at Edison High School)

The new elected members of Virginia’s 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee who will serve a four-year term (2009-2013) are:

• Arlington County – 3 female members & 4 male members
  Carolina Espinal, Margo E. Horner,  Maureen Markham
  Charles B. (Charley)  Conrad, Alfonso H. Lopez, Peter Rousselot, Terron D. Sims, II
• City of Alexandria – 2 female members & 2 male members
  Susan B. Kellom, C. E. Palmer Johnson (PJ)
  Richard R.G. Hobson, Pat Mulloy (filling vacancy from John Biechman)
• City of Falls Church – 1 female member
  Elizabeth H. (Betty) Coll
• Fairfax County- 4 female members & 4 male members
  Pixie Bell, Rose Chu, Sandra J. Klassen (8th CD member of the DPVA Resolutions Committee), Susan Warner, Abdel Rahman Hamed, Patrick J. Morrison, Scott Surovell, Mike Burke Kirby (elected for Steve Bunn’s seat September 21, 2009)

At the first meeting of the newly organized district committee on May 18th, 2009, the committee elected the following officers:

Margo E. Horner, Chair
Pixie Bell, First Vice Chair
Susan B. Kellom, Second Vice Chair
Charley Conrad, Secretary
Rose Chu, Treasurer

The district committee upon organization, and every two years thereafter (i.e. two-year term of offices) as outlined in the Party Plan section 6.2 (DPVA Party Plan, rev. December 4, 2010), elects one Democratic member of the General Assembly and three county or city representatives (these positions may be used to insure that the equal division requirement of Section 4.3 is met, i.e. gender balance). Members so chosen shall be counted in determining a quorum and shall be voting members of the district committee as soon as elected by the district committee. Confirmation of the election of the General Assembly member and the county or city representatives shall be made by the Central Committee.

Delegate Mark Sickles (43rd), General Assembly member
Dan Steen, Arlington
Lynn Clark, Fairfax
Julie N. Jakopic, Alexandria

As outlined in section 4.1 of the Party Plan, voting members of the Central Committee who are members of their respective district committee, i.e. for the 8th district, include:

Steve Bunn, Secretary, DPVA
Craig Fifer, Vice Chair for Technology and Communications, DPVA
Barbara Easterling, National Member, DNC
Richard Fowler, VAYD City/County Caucus Chair
Frank Leone, Jr., DNC Member
Brian Moran, Chair, DPVA
Honorable James P. Moran, Jr.
The Honorable Ken Plum, Chair, House Democratic Caucus
Mame Reiley, DNC Member
Andy Rivera, Latino Caucus
The Honorable Mark Warner
The Honorable Mary Margaret Whipple, Chair, Senate Democratic Caucus