About Albert

Albert and Mariah Pollard live near Mollusk in Lancaster County with their three young children, Mears, Sarah Wells and Ap.

While serving in the House, Pollard has concentrated his efforts on the core issues of environmental protection, health care and education. His work has focused on the particular issues of Chesapeake Bay cleanup, rural access to obstetrical care, reforming the federal No Child Left Behind Act and decoupling of electric utilities.

Albert's major honors included 2004 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Legislator of the Year award, 2004 Virginia Rural Healthcare Association award, and a League of Conservation Voters lifetime legislative scorecard of over 96%. In 2009, his work was credited with passage of landmark legislation which, for the first time in Virginia, granted electrical utilities financial incentive to encourage energy conservation.

Throughout his tenure, Albert has worked across party lines to serve as an independent voice in Richmond for the 99th district. Early in his career, Pollard penned a very candid editorial of the role of money in politics.

In May of 2009, political scientist Bob Holsworth wrote, “Albert has always been the kind of individual who speaks his mind, who is willing to challenge the conventional wisdom, and doesn’t worry all that much if he is off-kilter with his own party on occasion.”

Mr. Pollard considers himself a “serial entrepreneur”. He is currently president of a company that manufactures and sells portable sawmills across the United States (visit www.lumbersmith.com for more details!).

Pollard is a magna cum laude graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University where he majored in Urban Studies and Planning. Albert and Mariah are members of Trinity Episcopal Church where he is Senior Warden and a lay reader. He serves on the boards of several local non-profits.