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Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall on service, staff pay and county priorities
Summary
Phyllis Randall, chair of Loudoun County, told the Connect with County Leaders podcast that her work as a mental health therapist and service on state boards shaped her public service. She highlighted a completed compensation study, bringing collective bargaining to the county, removal of a Confederate statue and the Commission on Women and Girls.
Phyllis Randall, chair of Loudoun County, told the Connect with County Leaders podcast hosted by Brian Hill that a career as a mental health therapist working with substance-involved and justice-involved people prompted her to seek local office.
"I watched people walk into the jail that I thought, some of you belong here. But some of you, had you had something different starting, maybe you wouldn't be here right now," Randall said, describing how seeing young people enter incarceration influenced her decision to run for public office.
Randall framed local government as a place to find common ground across partisan divides. She said Northern Virginia accounts for roughly "42% of the…
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