Senator, Commonwealth of Virginia Senate, District 3, 2024-present

Member, Small Business Commission, Commonwealth of Virginia

Delegate, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates, District 17, 2011-2024

Candidate, Commonwealth of Virginia Senate, District 3, 2023

Member, Board of Trustees for the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia

Member, Board of Visitors on the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind

Member, Education and Health Committee

Member, General Laws and Technology Committee

Member, New College Institute

Member, Recreational Facilities Authority

Member, Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee

Member, Small Business Commission

Member, Subcommittee on Gaming

Member, Subcommittee on Health Professions

Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education

Former Member, Finance Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Privileges and Elections Committee, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Roanoke Higher Education Authority, Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Campaign Finance, Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Finance #2, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Health, Welfare and Institutions #2, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Health, Welfare, and Institutions #1, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Militia, Police and Public Safety #2, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections #3, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Former Member, Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections #4, Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates

Owner, Home Instead Senior Care, 2001-present

Product Marketing Manager, Xerox, 2002-2003

Product Specialist, Xerox, 2000-2002

Product Sales Specialist, Xerox, 1996-2000

Agent Sales Representative, Summit Business Solutions, 1993-1996

Minister of Music and Youth, Heritage Baptist Church, 1989-1992

Minister of Music and Youth, First United Methodist Church, Commerce GA, 1988-1989

Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Jefferson, GA, 1986-1988

Owner/Publisher, TANSTAAFL Magazine, 1983-1988

Deacon, Bonsack Baptist Church, present

Member, Downtown Roanoke Kiwanis Club, present

Volunteer Driver, Meals on Wheels, present

Member, National Rifle Association (NRA), present

Member, Home Instead Senior Care Franchise Exchange Council

Former Volunteer, Memory Walk

Member, Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

Former Volunteer, The Roanoke Rescue Mission

Former Board Member, Virginia Association of Home Care and Hospice

Awards:

Roanoke Regional Small Business of the Year (2009)

Favorite Quote:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
-C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
-C. S. Lewis

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
-Ronald Reagan

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Winston Churchill

All progress starts by telling the truth.
-Dan Sullivan

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Singing, biking, hiking, and reading