                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATE BOARD; MEMBERSHIP (§ 23.1-2902)

A. The State Board shall consist of 15 nonlegislative citizen members appointed
by the Governor subject to confirmation by the General Assembly.

B. Each member shall be a resident of the Commonwealth. No officer, employee, or
member of the governing board of any public institution of higher education or
of any school subject to the control of the State Board and no member of the
Board of Education is eligible for appointment to the State Board. All members
of the State Board are members at large charged with the responsibility of
serving the best interests of the whole Commonwealth, and no member shall act as
the representative of any particular region or institution of higher education.

HISTORY: 1966, c. 679, § 23-216; 1972, c. 136; 1983, c. 148; 2016, c. 588.