Virginia House of Delegates
2026 Regular Session
House Minutes
Don Scott, Speaker
G. Paul Nardo, Clerk
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Called to order at 12 m. by Don Scott, Speaker

Mace placed on Speaker's table by Head Page Carson Slaydon

Prayer offered by Pastor Michael Keyes, New Hope Baptist Church, Virginia Beach [at the request of Delegate Feggans]

Delegate Herring led the House in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America

Special Election results - House District 17

Attendance roll call - Quorum present

Leaves of Absence granted: Delegates Carroll [portion] and Knight

Journal for Tuesday, January 20, 2026, approved by the Speaker

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 
McGuire, Garrett - appointed to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns, the Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation

HJR 74 (Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a member of the State Corporation Commission, and a member of the Virginia Worker's Compensation Commission) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to (Y-97 N-0 A-0)

Motion by Delegate Pope Adams to adjourn in honor and memory of Dr. Gladys B. West agreed to

Bills presented, ordered printed, and referred pursuant to House Rule 37

Resolutions presented and laid on Speaker's table pursuant to House Rule 39(a)

HR 21 taken up and agreed to

HR 23 taken up and agreed to

Message from Senate: HJR 74 agreed to

HR 24 (Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 25 (Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 26 (Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 27 (Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the State Corporation Commission) offered by Delegate Ward and agreed to    

HR 28 (Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Worker's Compensation Commission) offered by Delegate Ward and agreed to  

Message from Senate: Nominations made for certain judicial offices of the Commonwealth      

HR 24 (Electing persons to circuit court judgeships) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0) 

HR 25 (Electing persons to general district court judgeships) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0) 

HR 26 (Electing persons to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0) 

HR 27 (Electing a person as a member of the State Corporation Commission) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0) 

HR 28 (Electing a person as a member of the Virginia Worker's Compensation Commission) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0)  

Motion by Delegate Maldonado to waive the reading of the report of the Joint Committee agreed to (Y-97 N-0 A-0)  

Election of Circuit Court Judges 

Rufus A. Banks, Jr., First Judicial Circuit

Stephen C. Mahan, Second Judicial Circuit

Jonathan L. Stone, Second Judicial Circuit

Michael A. Gaten, Eighth Judicial Circuit

Jane M. Reynolds, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit

Charles D. Clark, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit

Dale B. Durrer, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit

Michael F. Devine, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit

Marin B. Greene, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit

Charles N. Dorsey, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit

Joel R. Branscom, Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit

Michael Lee Moore, Twenty-ninth Judicial Circuit

Brian K. Patton, Twenty-ninth Judicial Circuit 

Election of General District Court Judges 

Elizabeth S. Foster, Second Judicial District

Paul D. Merullo, Second Judicial District

Aaron F. Kass, Second Judicial District

Michael C. Rosenblum, Fourth Judicial District

Stephanie M. Revere, Ninth Judicial District

Kenneth A. Blalock, Eleventh Judicial District

Matthew D. Nelson, Twelfth Judicial District

Kenneth Andrew Sneathern, Sixteenth Judicial District

Donald M. Haddock, Jr., Eighteenth Judicial District

Lorrie A. Sinclair Taylor, Twentieth Judicial District

Robin J. Mayer, Twenty-fifth Judicial District

Mary L. C. Daniel, Twenty-sixth Judicial District

George R. Brittain, II, Twenty-ninth Judicial District

Shawn L. Hines, Thirtieth Judicial District

Andrew L. Johnson, Thirtieth Judicial District

Wallace S. Covington, III, Thirty-first Judicial District

Kristi M. Caturano, Thirty-first Judicial District 

Election of Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges 

Adrianne L. Bennett, Second Judicial District

Philip C. Hollowell, Second Judicial District

Cela J. Burge, Judicial District 2-A

Ali T. Sprinkle, Third Judicial District

Cheryl J. Wilson, Eleventh Judicial District

Vanessa L. Jones, Twelfth Judicial District

Marilynn C. Goss, Thirteenth Judicial District

Marcel D. Jones, Fifteenth Judicial District

Deborah S. Tinsley, Sixteenth Judicial District

Frank W. Rogers, III, Twenty-third Judicial District

Linda Schorsch Jones, Twenty-fifth Judicial District

Kimberly M. Athey, Twenty-sixth Judicial District

Bradley G. Dalton, Twenty-seventh Judicial District

Stephanie Murray Shortt, Twenty-seventh Judicial District

Carlos J. Flores-Laboy, Thirty-first Judicial District

Jacqueline W. Lucas, Thirty-first Judicial District 

State Corporation Commission

Jehmal T. Hudson

Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission

Robert Alan Rapaport

Motion by Delegate Herring to adjourn agreed to

House adjourned, in honor and memory of Dr. Gladys B. West, at 1:08 p.m. to meet on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 12 m.