Dave Jenkins was elected to the City Council of the City of Newport News, Virginia in 2018. Newport News is the fifth largest city by population in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a population of approximately 180,000 and the home of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, which builds nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines for the US Navy.
Dave’s family has continuously lived in Coastal Virginia since the 1618, and Dave grew up in Newport News. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, he served in the US Army Medical Service Corps for eight and a half years. Dave left the Army after serving in Desert Storm. He then had a career in sales, operations, and management for a national homebuilder.
Dave serves on the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO), the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission (HRPDC), the HRPDC Coastal Resiliency Subcommittee, the Hampton Roads Community Action Program Board, the Peninsula Alcohol Safety Action Program Board, and the Advisory Council of the Peninsula Agency on Aging. He is also active in supporting a number of civic organizations in the City of Newport News.
Since returning to Newport News in 2013, Dave has developed a special appreciation of not only how coastal flooding is increasingly affecting life in Southeastern Virginia, but how precious and unique that lifestyle is. Coastal flooding does not just endanger homes and property, it threatens a way of life as old as our first settlement on this continent.
