James Vell Rives IV
Independent · Virginia · 2026Running for Member School Board, Arlington County, Virginia
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Let teachers focus on teaching
- Support age-appropriate education that lets kids be kids
Biography
Rives holds a B.A. in music and an M.D. from the University of Alabama and completed a psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, per the campaign site. He has practiced adolescent and adult psychiatry in Northern Virginia for more than 20 years and serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine, per the campaign site.
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