Vice Mayor Redella S. "Del" Pepper

Del Pepper was first elected to the City Council in 1985. Currently the Vice Mayor, she also served in this position from February 1996 through June 1997. Pepper co-chairs the Beauregard Street Corridor Task Force, the Alexandria-Arlington Task Force on the Waste-To-Energy Plant and the Welfare Reform Committee (Alexandria Works!). She is active with the Commission on Aging, Commission on Information Technology, Facilities Naming Committee, and the Council of Governments Air Quality Committee and Board of Directors. She is a member of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, where she also chairs the Regional Resources Committee. Pepper serves on the boards of the YMCA, the T.C. Williams PTSA, the Alexandria Arts Forum, Bienvenidos, and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program. She is a former first vice president of the local NAACP and former board member of the City's Community Services Board. Other affiliations include the Urban League, the League of Women Voters, and the Sierra Club. She is a recipient of the Jaycees Appreciation Award, the Council of Senior Citizens Organization's Outstanding Women of Alexandria Award, and the Commission for Women's Living Legend Award. Pepper is a Grinnell College graduate. A resident of the City's west end, she and her husband, Dr. F.J. Pepper, have one son.

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Ludwig P. Gaines

Ludwig Gaines was elected to the City Council in 2003. Prior to being elected, he was appointed to serve on the City's Planning Commission and the Alexandria Transit Board of Directors (DASH Bus). Gaines served on the Recreation Needs Assessment Task Force and is a former Landlord-Tenant Board Chair. In 2002, the Alexandria Circuit Court appointed him to serve as a jury commissioner. His commissions and committees involvement include the Carr/Norfolk Southern Design Review Board, Community Policy and Management Team, Council of Governments' Regional Transportation Planning Board, Economic Opportunities Commission, Local Emergency Planning Commission, Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, and the M. L. King Memorial Work Group. Gaines was elected second vice chair of the Alexandria United Way, vice president of the local NAACP, and he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce's Education Partnership. Additional affiliations include the Board of Trustees of the INOVA Alexandria Hospital Foundation and board member of Friends of the Freedmen's Cemetery. He and his wife, Crystal, are Quaker Hill residents where he is a homeowners and community association board member. Gaines has taught part time in the Alexandria City Public Schools. After living in New York, he received his law degree at Howard University where he is now a professor. His bachelor's degree in political science is from Hobart College. Gaines is a visiting teaching fellow for ethics and social justice at Hobart.

K. Rob Krupicka

Rob Krupicka was elected to the Alexandria City Council in May 2003. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics, he joined Signet Bank's Educational Funding Unit. Krupicka later became an AOL executive director of business affairs where he coordinated business relationships with internet, media, and financial services organizations. As a business consultant, he provides strategic planning and business development support for technology firms with an emphasis on financial services and security technology. His community affiliations include board membership for the Alexandria Volunteer Bureau, the Natural Exploreum and the Campagna Center. Additional appointments on behalf of the City include the Alexandria Commission on Information Technology, Chairman of the Council of Governments Committee on Noise Abatement and Aviation at National and Dulles Airports, Council of Governments' Human Services Policy Committee, Economic Development Partnership, Economic Opportunities Commission, Local Emergency Planning Commission, Samuel Madden Work Group, Community Emergency Response Team, and the Youth Policy Commission. Krupicka is a former vice chairman of the Alexandria Community Services Board. A resident of the Del Ray community, Krupicka twice served as its citizens' association president. He and his wife, Lisa, have two daughters.

Andrew H. Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald was elected to the City Council in May 2003. Born in Paris, France, he attended elementary, middle, and high school in Alexandria. His City boards and commissions' representation include Council of Governments' Ad Hoc Task Force on Regional Water Supply Issues, the Chesapeake Bay Policy Committee, and Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee. Others commitments include the Economic Opportunities Commission, the Library Board, Potomac Watershed Roundtable, Waterfront Committee, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Neighborhood Task Force. He formerly served on the City's Environmental Policy Commission and the Cameron Station Task Force. Macdonald earned his bachelor's and Ph.D. in geology from St. Lawrence University and the University of Western Ontario respectively. He has lectured at George Mason University (1989 - 1993) and at Johns Hopkins University (1993 - 2000), assisted teachers with the development of science curriculum, and consulted on pollution prevention, municipal waste disposal, and pesticide pollution for the Environmental Protection Agency. Macdonald was a staff scientist for the Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University and an analyst for the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment's Ocean & Environment Program. He has led trips to southeast Alaska, Antarctica, and the Columbia River. He is an Alexandria Seaport Foundation board member and owns Patowmack River Studio in Old Town. Macdonald, his wife, and daughter are Taylor Run community residents.

Paul C. Smedberg

Paul Smedberg was first elected to the City Council in May 2003. He resides in Northeast/North Old Town and is a former board president of the Community Partners for Children. Smedberg serves on the Council of Governments' Public Safety Policy Committee, Economic Opportunities Commission, Northern Virginia Regional Commission, Pension Study Committee, Sister Cities Committee, and the Eisenhower Partnership. Smedberg has also been a commissioner for the Alexandria Economic Opportunity Commission, served on the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Advisory Committee, the Alexandria Commission on Aging, and he was a medical service volunteer at the Whitman-Walker Clinic for nine years. He is a former board member of the Northeast Citizens Association and former president of the Old Town Gateway Homeowners' Association. Chairman of the Alexandria Democratic Committee from 1997 to 1999, he served as vice chairman of the group's precinct operations. From 1995 to 2000, Smedberg served as treasurer of the Moran for Delegate campaign. Smedberg is former director of governmental affairs at the National Health Council and former director of the American Parkinson Disease Association. He is director of public policy at the American Society of Nephrology. Smedberg is a Northeast/North Old Town resident, and his degrees in Economics and History are from Allegheny College.

Joyce Woodson

Joyce Woodson was first elected to City Council in 2000. Woodson's City Council committee assignments include the Convention and Visitors Association Board, Facilities Naming Committee, Council of Governments Metropolitan Development Committee, and the Legislative Sub-Committee. She previously served as an Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority Commissioner, on the Fair Housing Task Force, and on the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. Other community service commitments include serving as Chairman of the Board for Project Discovery (high school to college enrichment program), the Executive Board of the Coalition for Fairness in Education, the Executive Board of the Alexandria Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Board of Community Lodgings. Woodson is active with The National Congress of Black Women and the Alexandria Democratic Committee. The President of The Woodson Group, an Alexandria marketing and training firm, she graduated Columbia University, Barnard College with a degree in American Studies. Woodson has been married for 27 years to Howard Woodson, Esq. They have three children and are Del Ray residents.