Linda Q. Smyth

Linda Q. Smyth is the supervisor for the Providence District. She is currently serving her third term.

Political Career and Community Involvement
Linda Smyth has been a resident of Fairfax County since 1972. She was elected to her first term as Supervisor for Providence on November 4, 2003, defeating James E. Hyland, and inaugurated on December 15 of that year. She was re-elected to her second four-year term in 2007, and her third four-year term in 2011. Prior to her work on the board, Smyth was a member of the Fairfax County Planning Commission from 1999 to 2003. Currently, Smyth heads the BOS Technology Committee. In addition, she is the on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Counties and serves on the Green Building Ad Hoc Committee, Transportation Planning Board, Metropolitan Washington Air Quality, and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission.