Margaret Vanderhye
Virginia Governor Doug Wilder appointed Vanderhye to the state's Commission on Population Growth and Development and to a four-year term (1992–1996) on the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Board.In 1995, she conceived a cooperative community initiative called "Project Hospitality" to discourage hotels from providing high school students with rooms for after-prom parties.In 2005, she joined the advisory board of Our Military Kids, a non-profit organization that supports school age children of National Guard and Reserve personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.Another McLean resident, Richard "Rip" Sullivan, a lawyer with the firm Reed Smith, also sought the Democratic Party nomination for the seat which had been held by Republican Vince Callahan since 1968.The Republican Party nominee for the seat was Barbara Comstock, a McLean resident and political consultant who previously served as Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice.