CAPITOL OFFICE
General Assembly Building, Room 807
PO Box 406, Richmond VA 23219
Phone: 804-698-1009
Fax: 804-698-6709
Viewpoint Hotline: 800-889-0229
Email: DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov
DISTRICT OFFICE
PO Box 117, Glade Hill VA 24092
Phone: 540-576-2600
Fax: 804-698-6709
Email: DelCPoindexter@house.virginia.gov
CAMPAIGN OFFICE
PO Box 117, Glade Hill VA 24092
Phone: 540-489-8989
Email: Charles@votepoindexter.com
Charles@charlespoindexter.com
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Appropriations
Counties, Cities, and Towns
Agriculture, Chesapeake
& Natural Resources
COMMISSION ASSIGNMENTS
Virginia Commission on
Energy & Environment
Roanoke River Basin
Advisory Committee
Roanoke River Basin Bi-State
(VA/NC) Commission
Roanoke Higher Education Authority,
Board of Trustees
Western Virginia Public Education
Consortium
ENDORSEMENTS & RATINGS
Virginia Farm Bureau
National Rifle Association rating A
Virginia Society for Human Life
Virginia Fraternal Order of Police
Rated 100% by The Family Foundation
Board of Directors, Blue Ridge Council,
Boy Scouts of America
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| Biography of Delegate Charles Poindexter. |
 Charles Poindexter was elected by the citizens of the 9th District’s Franklin, Floyd, and North Pittsylvania Counties to serve his first term in the Virginia General Assembly’s House of Delegates in 2007. He brought with him eight years of service on the Franklin County Board of Supervisors in addition to more than thirty years experience in the field of Information Systems Technology. Charles retired in 1997 from Mitre Corporation as Site Manager and Senior Principal Systems Engineer to the Directorate of Requirements for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia.
During his career, Charles also worked in industry for Computer Sciences Corporation managing development of Intelligence and Command and Control computer software systems for the USAF; for Litton Industries, Greenbelt Space Flight Center, performing NASA satellite data processing; and for Systems Development Corporation in Falls Church and Hampton modernizing software development technologies and implementing online Command and Control and Intelligence systems. He has lived in the Washington, D.C. , area and Tidewater but also worked Department of Defense projects in Texas, Boston, New Jersey, Alaska, and other locations in the US, Europe and Asia.
The son of a farmer, sawmill operator and small business owner, Charles is a native of Franklin County and a product of his conservative, rural roots and the county’s outstanding school system. His mother worked as the cafeteria manager and dietician at the high school for many years. His sister, a high school social studies teacher, recently retired from the Franklin County Public Schools and his brother is a high school science teacher at Gretna High School in Pittsylvania County. Charles graduated with athletic and academic honors from Franklin County High School, earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Lynchburg College, and a Masters in Management from the George Washington University.
No matter where or how far Charles wandered during his professional career years, the hills and hollers of Franklin County beckoned him home at every opportunity.  As when his ancestors left Gloucester Point, James City County, then New Kent County to move west and settle in Franklin County in 1792, Charles left behind Tidewater and the corporate life to retire in 1997 to that same Glade Hill homeplace. Today, Charles farms land once worked by the original Poindexter settlers and has preserved the remaining log cabin on the property.
He was happily mending fences, harvesting hay, and running his logging and sawmilling operations when the call came for him to run for office as the Union Hall District’s representative on the Franklin County Board of Supervisors. He won the election and set about the business of helping guide Franklin County and the Smith Mountain Lake area through a major natural resources and economic development transition and into the new century.
During his eight years on the Board, among his assignments Charles served as Chairman of the Tri-County Lake Administration (TLAC), Chairman of the Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee, vice-chairman of the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, and as the Board’s representative for the Tri-County Smith Mountain Lake Relicense Committee in negotiations with AEP and FERC for the 40-year license for the Smith Mountain Lake project. He also served as a member of the Septic Studies and Grant Oversight Committee and was a member of the VACO Agricultural and Environmental Steering Committee, which develops positions on water quality, wastewater systems, erosion, sediment, bio-solids, agriculture, and similar issues.
Charles’s Board of Supervisors’ experience has served him well in the House of Delegates. He serves on the Agriculture, Environment, and Chesapeake Committee, the Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee, and the Cities, Towns, and Counties Committee. He is also vice-chairman of the State Energy and Environment Commission and serves on the Comprehensive Services Act (CSA) Commission. He is continuing his work on the Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee and is a Legislative Member of the Virginia - North Carolina Roanoke River Bi-State Commission.
His successful legislation includes establishment of a Drug Court for Franklin County, Betterment Loans for citizens financially unable to repair their septic systems, transparency of spending by school boards, assurance of adequate water for private wells, reduced vehicle registration fees for handicapped-equipped vehicles, and expanding the use of bio-mass materials for energy production.
Charles carries a 100% rating by the Family Foundation, an A rating by the NRA, is endorsed by the Virginia Society for Human Life PAC , the Virginia Farm Bureau, and the Fraternal Order of Police. He is a member of the Air Force Association and he sits on the Board of Directors of the Blue Ridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Charles is an active member of Crafts United Methodist Church, where he sings in the choir and is chairman of the Board of Trustees. He and his wife Janet have six adult children and ten grandchildren. They live at Smith Mountain Lake in Glade Hill near the original Poindexter homeplace.
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