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James Vell Rives IV

Independent · Virginia · 2026

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Member School Board, Arlington CountyVirginia · 2026Arlington County sample ballot

Top priorities

  • Let teachers focus on teaching
  • Support age-appropriate education that lets kids be kids

Per the campaign site.

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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