Loudoun County, Virginia is divided into eight magisterial districts: Algonkian, Ashburn, Broad Run, Catoctin, Dulles, Leesburg, Little River, and Sterling. The magisterial districts each elect one supervisor to the board of supervisors which governs Loudoun County. There is also a chair elected by the county at-large, bringing total board membership to nine. Board members serve concurrent, four-year terms. A vice chair is selected by the board from among its membership. The current chair is Phyllis Randall and the current vice chair is Mike Turner, the Ashburn District Supervisor. He has served as vice chair since January 2025. Salaries for the board term of 2024–2027 were set by the previous board in January 2023.
Meeting schedule The board of supervisors' meeting schedule is set forth in its Rules of Order. Business meetings typically occur twice monthly, beginning on the first Tuesday of the month at 5:00 p.m. The board holds one public hearing monthly, currently at 6:00 p.m. on the Wednesday that follows the first business meeting. The second business meeting occurs at 5:00 p.m. on the next Tuesday following the public hearing. The board's standing committees also usually meet monthly. The meetings are held at the Loudoun County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E. in Leesburg. The board's official meeting schedule is published in accordance with § 2.2-3707 of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the master calendarmaster calendar on the county's website.
Actions As empowered by the Code of Virginia, the board of supervisors typically takes action within its purview during each of its business meetings, public hearings, and standing committee meetings. The board has both administrative and legislative responsibilities, some of which are discharged in the role of the local governing body and some of which have derived from its function as an administrative subdivision of the state. The powers and duties of the board of supervisors include:
Adopting the county budget (establishing appropriations and setting the tax rates); Approving and enforcing the county's comprehensive land use plan and related ordinances; Making and enforcing ordinances for public safety, sanitation, health and other regulations permitted by state laws; and Providing for the care and treatment of indigent and handicapped citizens.
Over time, a board of supervisors may take thousands of individual actions in open session by motion and majority vote during its meetings. The official actions of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors are documented on the county's website, in the form of a copy teste, a "true copy" of the county's official record of Board actions, produced, signed, and published by the clerk on the county's website.
Current membership
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2027)(elected on November 7, 2023) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Phyllis Joycelyn Randall Democratic 2015 At-large Vice Chair Michael Robert Turner Democratic 2019 Ashburn Supervisor Juli Ellyn Briskman Democratic 2019 Algonkian Supervisor Sylvia Russell Glass Democratic 2019 Broad Run Supervisor Caleb Adriel Kershner Republican 2019 Catoctin Supervisor Matthew Farrell Letourneau Republican 2011 Dulles Supervisor Kristen Coles Umstattd Democratic 2015 Leesburg Supervisor Laura A. TeKrony Democratic 2023 Little River Supervisor Koran Terry Saines Democratic 2015 Sterling
Past memberships
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2023)(elected on November 5, 2019) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Phyllis Joycelyn Randall Democratic 2015 At-large Vice chair Koran Terry Saines Democratic 2015 Sterling Supervisor Juli Ellyn Briskman Democratic 2019 Algonkian Supervisor Michael Robert Turner Democratic 2019 Ashburn Supervisor Tony Ray Buffington Jr. Republican 2015 Blue Ridge Supervisor Sylvia Russell Glass Democratic 2019 Broad Run Supervisor Caleb Adriel Kershner Republican 2019 Catoctin Supervisor Matthew Farrell Letourneau Republican 2011 Dulles Supervisor Kristen Coles Umstattd Democratic 2015 Leesburg
Sterling District Supervisor Koran Saines served as vice chair from January 2020 to December 2023. Due to redistricting following the 2020 Census, the board opted to drop the Blue Ridge District name in favor of the Little River District name.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019)(elected on November 3, 2015) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Phyllis Joycelyn Randall Democratic 2015 At-large Vice chair Ralph Mark Buona Republican 2011 Ashburn Supervisor Suzanne Marie Volpe Republican 2011 Algonkian Supervisor Tony Ray Buffington Jr. Republican 2015 Blue Ridge Supervisor Ronald Allen Meyer Jr. Republican 2015 Broad Run Supervisor Geary Michael Higgins Republican 2011 Catoctin Supervisor Matthew Farrell Letourneau Republican 2011 Dulles Supervisor Kristen Coles Umstattd Democratic 2015 Leesburg Supervisor Koran Terry Saines Democratic 2015 Sterling
In November 2015, Loudoun voters made history when they elected their first two Black supervisors: Phyllis Randall (chair-at-large) and Koran Saines (Sterling). They also elected their youngest-ever supervisor, Broad Run District Supervisor Ron Meyer, who was 26 at the time of his election. Ashburn District Supervisor, Ralph Buona, served as vice chair all four years of the term.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2015)(elected on November 8, 2011) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Scott Kiefer York Independent 1995 At-large Supervisor Suzanne Marie Volpe Republican 2011 Algonkian Supervisor Ralph Mark Buona Republican 2011 Ashburn Supervisor Janet Sue Clarke Republican 2011 Blue Ridge Supervisor Shawn Marcus Williams (resigned) Republican 2011 Broad RunJames Gregory Bonfils Appointed 2015 Supervisor Geary Michael Higgins Republican 2011 Catoctin Supervisor Matthew Farrell Letourneau Republican 2011 Dulles Supervisor Kenneth David Reid Republican 2011 Leesburg Supervisor Eugene Anthony Delgaudio Republican 1999 Sterling
In November 2011, Republicans were elected to all nine seats on the board. Over the course of the four-year term, three supervisors served as the vice chair: Janet Clarke (Blue Ridge), Shawn Williams (Broad Run), and Ralph Buona (Ashburn). Clarke was elected Vice-Chair on January 3, 2012, and served until December 31, 2012, choosing not to hold the position a second year. On January 2, 2013, Williams was elected to serve as the next vice chair, a position he held until March 2015. Williams resigned the vice chair post on March 16, 2015, after a 2006 arrest for assault in Ocean City, Maryland resurfaced. Two days later, on March 18, 2015, the board elected Buona as the new vice chair, a position he held through the remainder of the term. On September 6, 2015, Shawn Williams, the Broad Run District Supervisor, resigned his supervisor position after being arrested for simple assault and unlawful entry earlier that day. The board appointed Jim Bonfils to fill the Broad Run District seat on September 21, 2015, from a list of 13 applicants (including former Broad Run District Supervisors Steve Stockman, David McWatters, and Chuck Harris). Bonfils was sworn in on September 22, 2015, and served out the remaining 101 days of the term.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2011)(elected on November 6, 2007) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Scott Kiefer York Independent1995 At-large Vice chair Susan Klimek Buckley Democratic 2007 Sugarland Run Supervisor James Gordon Burton Independent 2003 Blue Ridge Supervisor Lori L. Waters Republican 2003 Broad Run Supervisor Sarah Roach Kurtz Democratic 1999 Catoctin Supervisor Stevens R. Miller Democratic 2007 Dulles Supervisor Cathleen Kelly Burk Democratic 2007 Leesburg Supervisor Andrea Christiane McGimsey Democratic 2007 Potomac Supervisor Eugene Anthony Delgaudio Republican 1999 Sterling
In November 2007, voters removed four incumbent, fiscally conservative Republicans from the board of supervisors in a backlash over rapid development in the county's eastern portion. The board's make-up after the election was five Democrats, two Republicans, and two Independents. This was also the first time women made up a majority of the board members (Buckley, Waters, Kurtz, Burk, McGimsey). Sugarland Run District Supervisor, Susan Klimek Buckley, served as vice chair all four years of the term.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2007)(elected on November 4, 2003) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Scott Kiefer York Independent1995 At-large Vice chair Bruce Edward Tulloch Republican 2003 Potomac Supervisor James Gordon Burton Independent 2003 Blue Ridge Supervisor Lori L. Waters Republican 2003 Broad Run Supervisor Sarah Roach Kurtz Democratic1999 Catoctin Supervisor Stephen J. Snow Republican 2003 Dulles Supervisor James E. Clem Republican 2003 Leesburg Supervisor Eugene Anthony Delgaudio Republican 1999 Sterling Supervisor David M. "Mick" Staton Jr. Republican 2003 Sugarland Run
The 2003 board, and other officials in Loudoun, were the subject of a federal investigation of possible corruption relating to a land deal involving the Royal Saudi Academy. Potomac District Supervisor Bruce Tulloch served as vice chair all four years of the term.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2003)(elected on November 2, 1999) Position Name Party First elected District Chair Scott Kiefer York Independent1995 At-large Vice chair Eleanore Adele Craig Towe Democratic 1995 Blue Ridge Supervisor Charles A. Harris Democratic 1999 Broad Run Supervisor Sarah Roach Kurtz Democratic1999 Catoctin Supervisor John Drew Hiatt Republican1999 Dulles Supervisor Mark Rankin Herring Democratic1999 Leesburg Supervisor James Gordon Burton Independent 1995 Mercer Supervisor Eugene Anthony Delgaudio Republican 1999 Sterling Supervisor William Dale Bogard Independent 1999 Sugarland Run
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 1996, to December 31, 1999)(elected on November 7, 1995)PositionNamePartyFirst electedDistrict ChairDale Polen Myers Republican 1995 At-large Vice chair Joan Gillette Rokus Republican 1991 Leesburg SupervisorEleanore Adele Craig Towe Democratic 1995 Blue Ridge SupervisorDavid G. McWatters Republican 1995 Broad Run SupervisorHelen Anderson Marcum Republican 1995 Catoctin SupervisorLawrence Sylvester Beerman II Republican 1995 Dulles SupervisorJames Gordon Burton Independent 1995 Mercer SupervisorScott Kiefer York Republican 1995 Sterling SupervisorSteven D. Whitener Republican 1991 Sugarland Run
In November 1995, Dale Polen Myers became the first woman to be elected at-large to chair the board.
+Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (January 1, 1992, to December 31, 1995)(elected on November 5, 1991)PositionNamePartyFirst electedDistrict ChairGeorge Lloyd Barton IV Republican 1991 At-large SupervisorGeorge E. Washington Republican 1991 Blue Ridge SupervisorCharles D. Grant Republican 1991 Broad Run SupervisorRichard Llewellyn Roberts Republican 1991 Catoctin SupervisorCharles Edward Scaggs Independent 1991 Dulles SupervisorJoan Gillette Rokus Republican 1991 Leesburg SupervisorThomas Strickland Dodson (resigned) Democratic 1979 Mercer Ready Lannom Snodgrass Republican 1994 SupervisorHarold Roger Zurn Jr. Republican 1990 Sterling SupervisorSteven D. Whitener Republican 1991 Sugarland Run