Delegate Rip Sullivan • Fairfax County, Virginia

Delegate Rip Sullivan:

A Champion for Virginia Families

A Life of Service to Fairfax County

Rip has lived in McLean for almost 50 years. Rip and his wife Beth are both graduates of Langley High School, and their four kids all graduated from Fairfax County Public Schools. Before being elected to the House of Delegates in 2014, Rip served Fairfax and the broader northern Virginia region on numerous boards and commissions, providing him with extensive experience in a number of key policy areas that have directly translated to his work for our community in the General Assembly.

Priorities

Rip has fought hard to make Virginia a stronger, cleaner, safer, and equitable Commonwealth for all Virginians. We have made a lot of progress, but there is more work to be done. Rip will continue to champion policies to grow our economy, protect our environment, make our streets safer, and help working families get ahead.

Protecting our environment

Rip was proud to Patron and lead the fight to pass the historic Virginia Clean Economy Act, which made Virginia the first southern state to chart a course to reduce carbon emissions to zero. Rip has helped lead Virginia’s dramatic strides in wind, solar, and energy efficiency, transforming Virginia from a laggard to a leader in the effort to address climate change.

Ending the scourge of gun violence

As a parent with children who attended our public schools and a son who attended Virginia Tech, this is an issue particularly important to Rip. He introduced and passed Virginia’s “Red Flag Law,” which gives law enforcement the tools they need to remove firearms from someone deemed by a judge to be a serious risk to himself or others.

Protecting women's reproductive health care

Unlike so many states across the country, Virginia was not immediately impacted by the Dobbs Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. However, Governor Youngkin and House Republicans will pursue a near-total abortion ban in Virginia. Rip has always been a relentless champion for protecting women's access to reproductive health care and will fight to block any attempt to bar access to safe, legal abortions.

Updates From Rip

Virginia Business: Electric vehicle infrastructure buildout gathers power

August 29, 2022

Virginia Del. Richard “Rip” Sullivan Jr. is one of the General Assembly’s biggest advocates for electric vehicles. But when the Fairfax County Democrat went to buy a car in 2018, he started feeling anxious about...

Roanoke Times Op-Ed: Who’s the snowflake now?

August 20, 2022

We celebrated Black History Month in the Virginia General Assembly as we always do, with a series of speeches on the floor. Both sides of the aisle participated.I spoke as the month wound down about...

Washington Post Op-Ed: We Don’t Want Any Missed Flags in Virginia

August 8, 2022

I have run out of adjectives to describe mass shootings in our country and their maddening regularity: heartbreaking, terrifying, tragic. We have all used those words so many times that they almost lose their meaning....

In 2021, new districts were drawn across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Delegate Sullivan previously represented the 48th District and now will represent the new 6th District, which includes approximately 63,000 Fairfax families.