Phyllis J. Randall was elected Chair At-Large of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in

November 2015 and reelected in November 2019. Her election was historic as she became the

first person of color in Virginia’s history to be an elected chair of a county Board.

As Loudoun’s Chair At-Large, she represents Loudoun on various regional, state, and national

bodies including, Chair of the full Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) and Chair of

the NVTA Governance and Personnel Committee.  She also currently serves as a member of

the National Association of Counties (NACo) Health and Human Resources Committee and

founding member of the (NACo) Economic Mobility Leadership Network, a member of the

Virginia Association of Counties Health and Human Resources sub-committee and a member of

The Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments (COG) Board of Directors, Human

Services and Public Safety Policy Committee, Regional Forward Coalition, and DC Statehood

sub-committee.

Chair Randall also serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Finance/Government Operations and

Economic Development Committee and the Transportation and Land Use Committee.

In June of 2018, Chair Randall was selected as one of only twenty-five women in the country to

be included in the 2019 class of Governing Magazine’s Women in Government Leadership

Program. In addition, in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, the citizens of Loudoun County voted Chair

Randall Favorite Public Official, an honor which she is most humbled by and proud of.

From 2009-2011, Chair Randall served as Chair of Virginia’s Fair Housing Board under former

Governors Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell. From 2014 to June of 2018, she served as Chair of

Virginia’s State Board of Corrections under Governor Terry McAuliffe.

By profession, Chair Randall is a mental health therapist, with substance dependence as her

emphasis area. She has worked with justice-involved populations, both in and out of

incarcerated settings, a career she has enjoyed for over 20 years.

She and her husband Thaddeus (T.W.) have lived in Loudoun since 2003, and are the proud

parents of two sons, Ashon and Aaron.

Monica Backmon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) and has led NVTA since May 2014. Bringing more than 25 years of public and private sector transportation experience, Ms. Backmon oversees the region’s long-range planning, prioritization, and funding of regionally significant projects bringing multimodal transportation solutions to Northern Virginia. Managing an annual revenue stream provided through House Bill 2313 that is trending at $425 million per year, Ms. Backmon led the NVTA through the adoption of all seven funding programs, the most recent occurring in July of 2024. With the implementation of NVTA’s funding programs, NVTA is advancing 140 regional multimodal transportation projects totaling more than $3.8 billion for congestion reduction throughout the region. Ms. Backmon also oversees the distribution of $110 million annually to the Authority’s nine member localities for their local transportation priorities, which surpassed a total of $1 billion in September 2023.

Ms. Backmon holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Colleen Kardasz is the Assistant Director of the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development.

In this role she is responsible for assisting the executive director in planning, directing, managing and

overseeing the activities and operations of the department, which include commercial and rural

business recruitment, retention and expansion; as well as research, real estate and marketing activities.

Her background includes experience in marketing, communications, legislative affairs, and international

and small business development.

Ms. Kardasz is a certified economic developer and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree

in communication and Spanish from Hiram College. She received her law degree from the University of

Toledo and passed the bar in Ohio, where she held an active license until moving to Northern Virginia

with her husband and two children.

Erin L. Swisshelm joined the firm in 2021 as an associate for the Land Use & Zoning practice group in the Loudoun office. Prior to joining the firm, Erin was an Assistant County Attorney at the Frederick County Attorney’s office in Winchester, Virginia. Prior to working at the Frederick County Attorney’s office, Erin worked as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Erin attended law school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Chris Clemente founded the Comstock organization in 1985 and has guided its growth and diversification since its inception. Mr. Clemente managed the growth of Comstock as a private enterprise until the 2004 initial public offering of Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHCI), now known as Comstock Holding Companies®, Inc. (“Comstock” or “Company”). Since the IPO, Mr. Clemente has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Comstock and is the largest individual stockholder of the Company. Mr. Clemente chairs Comstock’s Executive Committee, which charts strategic direction, evaluates acquisition opportunities, and oversees strategic partnerships, including multiple public-private partnerships. Mr. Clemente is also Managing Member of Comstock Partners, LC (“Partners”), a family-owned, private company founded by Mr. Clemente in 1999 to focus on commercial real estate development and investment.

Following its IPO, Comstock expanded its for-sale homebuilding operation into multiple key markets in the southeastern United States, while the commercial development operation of Partners remained focused on the Washington, DC market. Following the Great Recession, Comstock scaled back its for-sale homebuilding operation to focus solely on the Washington, DC market. Mr. Clemente managed the two companies as separate firms with distinct management teams and investment objectives until early 2018, when Comstock announced its plan to wind-down its for-sale homebuilding operation and refocus on commercial development, real estate asset management, and real estate related services. To execute this strategic plan, the operating platforms of Comstock and Partners were combined, and changes were made to the management team. To anchor the transition, Partners entered a long-term, cost-plus asset management agreement covering its portfolio of commercial properties, which had grown to include millions of square feet of stabilized buildings and development assets strategically located at key transit stations on Metro’s new Silver Line in the Dulles Corridor of Northern Virginia that have an estimated value at full build out of approximately $3 billion.

Key assets included in the portfolio of managed assets, include; Reston Station, a 4.5 million square foot transit-oriented and mixed-use development covering nearly 40 acres surrounding the terminus station of Phase I of the Silver Line in Reston, Virginia, and Loudoun Station, a 2+ million square foot transit-oriented and mixed-use development located adjacent to the terminus station of Phase II of the Silver Line in Ashburn, Virginia.

Mr. Clemente attended the University of Wisconsin and George Mason University where he studied Business and Psychology. Mr. Clemente and his wife, Tracy Schar, have been long-time supporters of numerous charitable organizations in the Washington, DC region that support international adoptions, foster care programs, and that provide educational, housing and other assistance to families and children in-need.

Kurt Marx is the market president for United Bank’s Fairfax West region, encompassing Loudoun County and parts of Fairfax County. He is a 1980 graduate of George Washington University and he has been employed in the local banking industry since 1986. Kurt is an active member and has served in various positions within St. Theresa Catholic Church, Ashburn, VA. Since 2012, he has served as director and treasurer for the non-profit Mosaic-Virginia which operates a clinic in Lansdowne, VA and provides free women’s health care services.