Lee Ware

Robert Lee Ware, Jr. (born August 20, 1952) is an American politician. Since 1998 he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 65th district west of Richmond, consisting of the entirety of his home county of Powhatan, the precincts of Skinquarter, Tomahawk, Woolridge, Brandermill, Swift Creek, Evergreen West, Edgewater, Midlothian, Roseland, and Midlothian North in Chesterfield County; the precincts of Fife, Three Square, Sandy Hook, and Goochland Court House 2, in Goochland County; and the precincts of Columbia and Fork Union in Fluvanna County. He is a member of the Republican Party.Ware has served on the House committees on Agriculture (1998–2001), Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (2002–), Claims (1998–1999), Commerce and Labor (2002–), Conservation and Natural Resources (1998–2001), Corporations, Insurance and Banking (1998–2001), Finance (2001–), Militia and Police (2000–2001), Militia, Police and Public Safety (2002–2003), Mining and Mineral Resources (1998–2000), and Rules (2010–).His current Committee Membership assignments include: Finance, Agriculture Chesapeake and Natural Resource, Commerce and Labor, and Rules. His current Subcommittee Membership assignments include: Agriculture Chesapeake and Natural Resources - Subcommittee #2, Agriculture Chesapeake and Natural Resources - Subcommittee #, Finance - Subcommittee #2, Finance - Subcommittee #3, Commerce and Labor - Subcommittee # 1, and Rules - Subcommittee #1.Ware also serves by appointment on several commissions, including Small Business, Water, Health Insurance Reform, Coal & Energy, Unemployment Compensation, and Employment Retirement Security and Pension Reform. He is a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Board of Trustees, and of joint subcommittees on Local Government Fiscal Stress and Tax Preferences.