Margaret Vanderhye
Ms. Vanderhye brings an extensive history of public and community service to her leadership on the NVDCB board.  Most recently from 2008-2010, Ms. Vanderhey served in the House of Delegates representing Virginia's 34th District (McLean, Great Falls, and parts of Herndon and Vienna).  During her tenure, Ms. Vanderhye was a member of the Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee, the Science and Technology Committee and the Joint Study Commission on Bioscience and Biotechnology and served as the House representative to the regional Metropolitan Washington Transportation Planning Board.  Ms. Vanderhye has also served on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority as an appointee of Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and the National Capital Planning Commission as an appointee of Presidential Clinton.  From 1992-1996, she served as Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s appointee to the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Board, the Commission on Population Growth and Development and Chair the Citizens’ Advisory Committee for the Northern Virginia Transportation Coordinating Council. From 1989-1991 she was the elected statewide chair of the Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions.

Ms. Vanderhye earned a B.A. in political science from Northwestern University and a M.A. in economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  She is also a graduate and a member of the Board of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership and a graduate of Leadership Fairfax '90.