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

Rip Sullivan: Youngkin’s energy plan would set Virginia back

November 27, 2022

Richmond Times Dispatch Column Oh, to have been a fly on the wall. I would have enjoyed watching Gov. Glenn Youngkin labor over what words to use in his energy plan that wouldn’t enrage the...

Richmond Times Dispatch: Could Virginia’s red flag law have helped in the UVa case?

November 19, 2022

University of Virginia shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. had been on the radar of the university’s Threat Assessment Team a couple of times, university Police Chief Tim Longo said during a news conference on...

Richmond Times Dispatch: No, electric vehicles aren’t a threat to Virginians

October 10, 2022

By DEL. RIP SULLIVAN and DEL. LAMONT BAGBY To hear Gov. Glenn Youngkin (“ludicrous”) or House Speaker Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, (“dumb, dangerous and expensive”) on the subject of electric vehicles, you’d conclude EVs represent a...

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.