Samuel Anthony "Sam" Nixon, Jr. (born November 9, 1958) is an

American politician In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal democratic republic with a presidential system. The three distinct branches share powers: Congress, which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legis ...

. He served in the

Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbe ...

from March 1994 to April 2010, representing the 27th district in Chesterfield County, the southern suburbs of

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. From 2010 until 2015, he was the Chief Information Officer of the state, and head of the

Virginia Information Technologies Agency The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) is an executive department that provides information technology services to other Virginia state agencies. It is headed by Virginia's Chief Information Officer (CIO) who currently is Robert 'Bob' ...

(VITA). In March 2015, Nixon assumed the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the

Virginia State Corporation Commission The State Corporation Commission, or SCC, is a Virginia (USA) regulatory agency whose authority encompasses utilities, insurance, state-chartered financial institutions, securities, retail franchising, and railroads. It is the state's central fili ...

having been nominated by the commissioners of that agency.

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* * * 1958 births Living people Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates James Madison University alumni People from Chesterfield County, Virginia 21st-century members of the Virginia General Assembly {{Virginia-delegate-stub