About Jeff

Chairman Jeff McKay is a lifelong Fairfax County resident, born on the Route One Corridor and raised by a family of educators. It was his grandmother who first instilled him with the desire to work in public service, hosting voter registration drives at her home and fiercely advocating for affordable senior housing. Jeff is proud to have Morris Glen, an affordable senior housing community in Franconia District, named in her honor.

Jeff was a student in Fairfax County’s world-class public school system, having completed K-8 at Woodlawn Elementary School and Walt Whitman Middle School before graduating from Bishop Ireton High School.

After serving as Supervisor Dana Kauffman’s chief of staff for more than a decade, Jeff was elected Franconia District Supervisor in November 2007. As Supervisor, Jeff has been a champion for equity, education, affordable housing, transportation, and the environment in Fairfax County. He was elected countywide as Chair of the Board of in 2019 and currently chairs the Budget Committee.

In addition to chairing the Board’s Budget Committee, Jeff is also a regional leader. Currently, he is Chair of the Dulles Corridor Advisory Committee and serves on both the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. He has also served as a member of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, where he has been a two-time chair, and is on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Association of Counties, where he is the immediate past president.

Jeff was recognized with the 2021 Chairman’s Choice Award from the Park Authority for outstanding contributions towards the county’s world-class park system and received the 2020 Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions Sustainability Champion Legacy Award for his work to protect our environment. He was also named the Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Citizen of the Year and Mount Vernon Lee Enterprises’ 2017 advocacy champion.

He earned a B.S. in Public Administration from James Madison University and is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. Jeff lives in Franconia District with his wife Crystal, his daughter his son, who attend Fairfax County Public Schools, and their retired racing Greyhound, Pascal.