Henrico’s elected officials take oaths for terms beginning Jan. 1
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Fifteen Henrico elected officials were officially installed into office during an investiture ceremony Dec. 11 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.
All five members of the Board of Supervisors will return for new four-year terms after winning re-election Nov. 5; they are Dan Schmitt (Brookland District), Frank Thornton (Fairfield), Tommy Branin (Three Chopt), Pat O’Bannon (Tuckahoe) and Tyrone Nelson (Varina).
The School Board welcomed three new members – Krista Kinsella (Brookland), Marcie Shea (Tuckahoe) and Alicia Atkins (Varina), each of whom will replace a retiring board member. They'll join Roscoe Cooper (Fairfield) and Micky Ogburn (Three Chopt) for four-year terms. The ceremony took on a particularly special meaning for Cooper, who proposed to his girlfriend on stage after taking his oath of office.
Other elected officials sworn in for four-year terms were incumbent commonwealth's attorney Shannon Taylor; newly elected sheriff Alisa Gregory; and Nicole Anderson Ellis, Anne-Marie J. Leake and Claiborne E. Yarbrough, directors of the Henricopolis Soil and Water Conservation District. Leake and Yarbrough are new to that board.
The Board of Supervisors will meet Jan. 14 to choose its chairman and vice chairman for 2020 and to conduct other organizational business. The School Board meets Dec. 12 and then also will be off until January.
