Member City Council, Chesapeake City

Per the campaign site.

Clayton L. Spruill currently serves as a member of the Chesapeake Planning Commission and is a retired administrator from Chesapeake Public Schools, per his campaign site. He has served as a board member for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, per his campaign site. He is a Doctoral of Education candidate at Regent University, with an anticipated 2026 graduation, and earned a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Regent University in 2001, per his campaign site.

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Nichelle Buffalow is a lifelong Chesapeake resident, raised in the Crestwood community, and a former City of Chesapeake employee, per WAVY-TV's candidate questionnaire. She has led Buffalow Family and Friends, a Chesapeake nonprofit combating food insecurity and serving seniors, youth and families, for the past 17 years, per WAVY-TV. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.

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Newins was elected to Chesapeake City Council in November 2022 as the youngest council member in the city's history, per the campaign site. A James Madison University graduate in mathematics and justice studies, she worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and a prosecutor for the City of Chesapeake before becoming a civil litigation and criminal law attorney at Poole Brooke Plumlee PC, per the campaign site.

Jefferies is a Chesapeake police captain and a sitting member of City Council, per WAVY.com and the city's official website.

Daniel W. Whitaker

Independent Incumbent

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Whitaker is a lifelong Chesapeake resident and small business owner who is president of D2W Electric, Inc. and holds a master electrician's license, per search-indexed campaign background. He is a sitting City Council member, confirmed on the city's official website.

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Eric Vaughn Wray II has more than 25 years of experience in the funeral industry and holds dual licenses as a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Virginia and North Carolina, per his campaign site. He served in the U.S. He was appointed in 2011 by Governor Bob McDonnell and reappointed in 2023 by Governor Glenn Youngkin to the Virginia State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, where he currently serves as a board member, per his campaign site.

St. Louis is a pharmacist running as an independent candidate for Chesapeake City Council, per campaign filings tracked by the Virginia Public Access Project. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.

Gayle M. Gilmore is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Member City Council, Chesapeake City, per the Virginia Department of Elections' certified local candidate list.

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Brown-Yearling holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus, a bachelor's degree from Virginia Wesleyan University and an associate degree in Respiratory Therapy from Tidewater Community College, and was appointed to a four-year term on the Chesapeake Commission on Health and Well-Being, per her candidate profile. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.

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Mayfield is a Naval Academy graduate and retired Surface Warfare Officer with 22 years of military service who holds a master's degree in Applied Physics, per his campaign site, which also notes he serves on the Chesapeake Citizens Advisory Committee and Economic Development Authority.

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Rosinski is a Navy Reserve officer and licensed attorney with degrees from Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law, per the campaign site.

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Naperala has taught high school English in Chesapeake since her family moved to the city in the late 1990s, per her campaign biography. She serves on the executive boards of the Chesapeake Education Association, where she chairs the Legislative Action Committee, and the Chesapeake NAACP chapter, where she chairs the Education Committee.

Per Greening Chesapeake candidate survey.

Yacus is co-chair of the Norfolk Highlands Civic League, where he has focused on neighborhood issues such as speeding, drainage and city responsiveness, per a Greening Chesapeake candidate survey response. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.

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Deel is a Chesapeake resident and the parent of a child with disabilities, an experience she says shaped how she views local leadership, per the campaign site. She describes her career as helping people navigate difficult situations and solve problems, though the site does not name a specific occupation, per the campaign site.

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Ozan M. "Oz" Duran is a Chesapeake father and fourth-generation farmer who previously worked as a public-school math teacher, a city debt analyst, an engineer and a contractor, per the campaign site.