Jim Burton: Dedicated Service to County and Community
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- Elected as an Independent in 1995 to Loudoun County Board of Supervisors as Mercer District Supervisor
- Re-elected as an Independent in 1999 in Mercer District and in 2003 and 2007 in the Blue Ridge District
- Past President of Aldie Ruritan
- Member, Loudoun County Citizens Committee to explore alternatives to the Landfill, 1990
- Past member of Board of Directors of the Goose Creek Association
- Past member of Board of Directors of Loudoun Citizens Health Watch
- Co-Founder of TaxAction-91
- Finance/Government Services and Operations Committee. Served on this committee for 15 out of the past 16 years, serving as Chair from 2000 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2011. During my term on the committee, the County’s bond rating increased from Aa to Aa+ to AAA
- Fiscal Impact Committee Chairman
- Public Safety Committee (now part of Finance/Government Services and Operations Committee).
- Economic Development Committee (now part of Finance/Government Services and Operations Committee)
- Member, Affordable Dwelling Unit Advisory Board
- Member, Route 50 Traffic Calming Task Force
- Former member, Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Commission
- Former member, Rural Economic Development Council
- Former member, Rt. 28 Transportation Commission Improvement District.
- Former member (eight years), Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments (COG) Air Quality Committee (chairman for two years)
- Former member, Loudoun County Library Board of Trustees
- Voted Virginia’s Outstanding Library Trustee for 1999 by the Virginia Public Library Directors Association
- Wrote The Pentagon Wars (Naval Institute Press, 1993) which tied for 1st prize with Richard Reeves’ President Kennedy: A Profile in Power for Washington Monthly Magazine’s 1993 Political Book Award. The book dealt with my controversial experience with the Army over testing the Bradley Fighting Vehicle in the mid-1980’s.
The book received glowing reviews by the New York Times and other papers.
- My book was the basis for a 1998 HBO original movie, The Pentagon Wars, staring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes in Jim’s role. The movie is available at www.Netflix.com
My wife and I have the good fortune of living in the historic Mercer House in Aldie, former home of Charles Fenton Mercer, one of Virginia’s outstanding statesmen of the 19th century. Mercer served in the U. S. Congress from 1817-1840 and founded the Village of Aldie.
