Cabinet

Delegate Mark Sickles is wrapping up his 22nd year in Virginia’s House representing part of South Fairfax County. He is known for working collaboratively to get difficult tasks accomplished in a bipartisan manner. Since 2004, Delegate Sickles has served on, and chaired, the House Health and Human Services Committee. In 2014, Speaker Bill Howell appointed him to the Appropriations Committee, where he currently chairs the Health and Human Resources Subcommittee. In 2018, Speaker Kirk Cox appointed him to the House-Senate budget conference committee. He has been reappointed to represent the House budget position in these negotiations by Speakers Filler-Corn, Gilbert, and Scott in each year since. 

Delegate Sickles is the current chair of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), serves on the Major Employment Investment (MEI) Commission, the Joint Commission on Health Care, and on the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Revenue Estimates (GACRE). After regaining the majority in 2023, Speaker Scott appointed Delegate Sickles to the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and to the Select Committee on Advancing Rural and Small Town Health Care. Finally, he also serves on the Rules Committee and the Privileges and Elections Committee.

Delegate Sickles has successfully shepherded through the General Assembly significant healthcare advances, including the transition away from Healthcare.gov to the Virginia Health Insurance Exchange, popular election administrative reforms, Virginia’s sports betting statute, and the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority. He has championed investments in libraries, endangered species protection and recovery, and various bioscience initiatives across the Commonwealth. He is the patron of the pending constitutional amendment to protect marriage equality for LGBTQ Virginians.