About
Dave | Biography
Dave
and his wife, Julia
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"I
love Fairfax County. It's where I grew up.
It's where my wife Julia and I chose to raise our family.
I've spent more than three decades working to keep it
a safe and prosperous place for families. As Delegate,
I'll continue working to move Fairfax County forward."
--DAVE
MARSDEN |
A
thoughtful moderate
Partisan
bickering doesn't help Fairfax County move forward.
That's why Dave Marsden has always put progress before
partisanship--and has the bipartisan support to prove
it.
Republican
Delegate Jim Dillard supports Dave Marsden because
he's seen Marsden in action, working across party lines
in support of Fairfax County schools.
Democratic
Governor Mark Warner also supports Dave Marsden
as the best man to move Fairfax County forward.
And Marsden is a strong supporter of Governor Warner's
recent bipartisan budget reform that secured critical
funding for Fairfax County schools and for combating
traffic gridlock.
An
expert in juvenile justice
Dave
Marsden knows Fairfax County can't thrive without safe
neighborhoods. And with a lifetime of experience
in juvenile justice, Dave Marsden
has become the leader that Democrats and Republicans
alike look to for leadership in the fight against crime
and youth gangs.
As
head of the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center
for 17 years, Marsden never allowed an escape. He got
tough with gang leaders and created an award-winning
education program. Marsden was so sucessful that
Republican Governor Jim Gilmore tapped him to run the
state's Department of Juvenile Justice in 2001 and awarded
him the Patrick Henry Award for distinguished public
service.
Marsden
has won praise from both parties for showing gang leaders
there is a price to pay for breaking the law, including
the time he stamped out a major gang outbreak at the
Beaumont Correctional Center. |
About
Dave Marsden
A
lifelong resident of Northern Virginia, Dave Marsden has lived
in Burke since 1977 with his wife Julia and three sons, Nathan,
Stuart, and Connor.
Dave
graduated From W.T. Woodson High School in 1966 and Randolph-Macon
College in 1970, when he began a career in Juvenile Justice
as a Probation Officer with the Fairfax County Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court. He went on to establish and operate
Fairfax County's shelter home for youth with severe family
problems and was later appointed as the first Superintendent
of Fairfax County's Juvenile Detention Center. Under Dave’s
17 years of leadership, there was never an escape or serious
injury to residents at the facility.
Dave left the detention center in 1999 to become the Legislative
Aide for Virginia House of Delegates member Jim Dillard. In
2000 Governor Jim Gilmore appointed him Chief Deputy and then
Acting Director of the 2,700 person Virginia Department of
Juvenile Justice. After serving for 6 months in the administration
of Governor Mark Warner, Dave joined Development Services
Group, Inc. (DSG), where he now manages a U.S. Department
of Justice program that helps localities reduce youth gang
activity and violent youth crime.
Dave has long been active in local community organizations.
He served as President of the Enterprise School and the West
Lynch Foundation, in addition to coaching basketball, football,
and soccer with the Braddock Road Youth Club, (BRYC). He also
coached baseball for the Annandale-North Springfield Little
League. Dave now lives with his wife, Julia, on Jackson Street
in Burke.
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