President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia

The President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia is a Virginia constitutional office whose role is to serve as the presiding officer of the Senate of Virginia in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor. The office is established in Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia. The current office holder is Louise Lucas.

List of presidents pro tempore

Assembly	President pro tem.	Party	District	Term start	Term end
1908–1909	Edward Echols	Democratic	9th	January 8, 1908	December 19, 1914
1910–1911
1912–1913
1914–1915
1914–1915	C. Harding Walker	Democratic	34th	January 13, 1915	January 14, 1920
1916–1917
1918–1919
1920–1921	Saxon W. Holt	Democratic	36th	January 14, 1920	January 12, 1938
1922–1923
1924–1925			34th
1926–1927
1928–1929
1930–1931
1932–1933
1934–1935
1936–1937			33rd
1938–1939	Henry T. Wickham	Democratic	31st	January 12, 1938	March 5, 1943
1940–1941
1942–1943
1944–1945	Robert O. Norris Jr.	Democratic	30th	January 10, 1945	January 11, 1950
1946–1947
1948–1949
1950–1951	Morton G. Goode	Democratic	8th	January 11, 1950	January 9, 1952
1952–1953	Robert C. Vaden	Democratic	13th	January 9, 1952	January 13, 1954
1954–1955	Walter C. Caudill	Democratic	19th	January 13, 1954	January 11, 1956
1956–1957	Charles T. Moses	Democratic	11th	January 11, 1956	November 17, 1964
1958–1959
1960–1961
1962–1963
1964–1965
1966–1967	James D. Hagood	Democratic	4th	January 12, 1966	January 12, 1972
1968–1969
1970–1971
1972–1973	Edward E. Willey	Democratic	10th	January 12, 1972	July 17, 1986
1974–1975
1976–1977
1978–1979
1980–1981
1982–1983
1984–1985
1986–1987
1986–1987	William F. Parkerson Jr.	Democratic	12th	July 18, 1986	January 13, 1988
1988–1989	Stanley C. Walker	Democratic	6th	January 13, 1988	January 12, 2000
1990–1991
1992–1993
1994–1995
1996–1997
1998–1999
2000–2001	John H. Chichester	Republican	28th	January 12, 2000	January 9, 2008
2002–2003
2004–2005
2006–2007
2008–2009	Charles J. Colgan	Democratic	29th	January 9, 2008	January 11, 2012
2010–2011
2012–2013	Walter Stosch	Republican	12th	January 12, 2012	January 28, 2014
2014–2016	Charles J. Colgan	Democratic	29th	January 29, 2014	June 23, 2014
2014–2016	Walter Stosch	Republican	12th	June 23, 2014	January 13, 2016
2016–2018	Stephen Newman	Republican	23rd	January 13, 2016	January 8, 2019
2018–2020
2020–2022	Louise Lucas	Democratic	18th	January 8, 2020	(incumbent)
2022–2024
2024–2026

See also

• List of Virginia state legislatures