On January 3, Virginia’s newest Attorney General Jason Miyares named his official appointments, with one longtime Prince William County resident among them.

Darrell “D.J.” Jordan, a community leader and former Chairman of the Virginia State Board of Social Services, was selected to be Miyares’ Chief-of-Staff. In a tweet sent out earlier this week, the appointments were announced, and Jordan will be back in the political spotlight. In 2019, Jordan unsuccessfully ran for the 31st District of the House of Delegates, but won the largest amount of votes in the District’s history for any Republican candidate for state or local office.

Before accepting the appointment, he served as Vice President of Pinkston, a strategy and communications consultant in Falls Church, Virginia. He also worked in the United States Congress for ten years in a variety of positions, including the Office of Senator James Lankford and the House Committee on Small Business. He started his career in broadcast journalism, working for several media outlets such as CNN and Fox News.

In 2017, he completed a four-year term of service on the Virginia State Board of Social Services, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Virginia’s Kids Belong, a nonprofit organization that helps foster children throughout the Commonwealth. He has also served as a member of the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, which advocates for and empowers local communities to create innovative solutions to problems in the criminal justice system.

Congratulations to Mr. Jordan on his new appointment.