* Mayor M. Jane Seeman was appointed to the Vienna Town Council in 1996 to fill the unexpired term of the late Rodger W. Seeman. In 1997, she was elected to a two-year term, and in 2000 was elected mayor for the first time. Seeman grew up in Hays, Kan. and has lived in Vienna since 1968. She worked as a newspaper correspondent for the Journal Newspapers until 1990, and was the director of the Vienna Community Center preschool program until her retirement in 1998. She is very active in the community, and has volunteered a great deal with the Patrick Henry Library. She is also an honorary member of the Rotary Club and has volunteered on the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department steering committee. She is the town's representative to the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. Seeman was named Citizen of the Year in 1999 by the Vienna Times newspaper and the Vienna Chamber of Commerce.
* Councilmember Laurie Genevro Cole was first elected to the Town Council in 2002 and reelected in 2004 and again in 2006. She was an adjunct professor at Marymount University in Arlington from 2000-04, and from 1986-89, was an attorney at the firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. She has served on the Board of Zoning Appeals (2000-02), the Planning Commission (1996-2000), and the Community Enhancement Commission (1994-96). Cole graduated with a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in California and a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has volunteered with Vienna youth sports and on the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department steering committee, on the Louise Archer Elementary School PTA, and the Vienna Presbyterian Church. Cole is the council's representative to the Providence District Advisory Committee. She is married to Harry Cole and has two sons.
* Councilmember Edythe Frankel Kelleher, elected to the council in 2002 and reelected in 2004 and again in 2006, has lived in Vienna since 1994. She was a property manager and economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, and she has served as a staff member for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Kelleher served on the Hunter Mill District Council of Civic Associations and was the South Vienna Association president from 1996-2000. She is a member of the Vienna-Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Vienna Host Lions and the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. She has volunteered on the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department steering committee. She was the Vienna Elementary PTA president from 2000-01 and will be the PTSA president for James Madison High School for the year of 2006-07. Kelleher earned her bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and a master's in business administration from George Washington University. She is currently chairman of the Hunter Mill Land Use Advisory Committee and is also the council's representative to the committee. She is married to Gary Kelleher and has three sons.
* Councilmember George Lovelace, who grew up in Indiana and moved to Vienna in 1975, was first elected to the council in 1982. In 1996, he resigned to run for the Virginia House of Delegates. Lovelace was the first African-American to represent Northern Virginia in the House of Delegates since Reconstruction. In 2003, he was elected back to the council and reelected in May 2005. After serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps for 20 years, Lovelace worked as an information technology consultant. He currently volunteers as a court-appointed advocate for neglected and abused children. Lovelace is the council's representative to Northern Virginia's Community Appearance Alliance. He is married to Donalda Lovelace and has two grown children.
* Councilmember Mike Polychrones, a lifelong Vienna resident, was appointed to the Council in 1996. Since then, Polychrones has served as vice mayor and was acting mayor in 1999-2000, and was elected on the Council in 2004 and reelected to his current term in 2006. He sat on the town's Transportation Safety Commission from 1992-94 and on its Planning Commission from 1994-96. From 1996-2001, he was on the Fairfax County Industrial Development Authority, which coordinates with Inova Health Systems to run Fairfax Hospital. Polychrones has served as honorary chair of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department steering committee, is a member of the Vienna Host Lions Club and is a past president and lifetime member of the Vienna Jaycees. By day, Polychrones works as program manager for the American Bankers Insurance Association. He is the council's representative to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. He graduated from Oakton High School and Virginia Commonwealth University and has been through Virginia Tech's certified planning commissioners' school and the American Institute of Banking. He is married to Patricia Polychrones.
* Councilmember Maud Robinson has lived in Vienna for 54 years. A graduate of Smith College in Massachusetts, Robinson served in the U.S. Navy as a WAVE during World War II. She also attended law school at the University of Virginia for two years. Robinson has served on the town's Architectural Review Board, the Town-Business Liason Committee and the Church Street Vision Committee. She was appointed to the Town Council in 2000 to fill the unexpired term of M. Jane Seeman and was elected in 2001. She was reelected in 2003 and 2005. She is the council's representative to the town's Employee Retirement Committee. In 2000, Robinson was named Citizen of the Year by the Vienna Times newspaper. She serves on the board of Historic Vienna Inc. and is a member of the American Legion and the Ayr Hill Garden Club and an honorary member of the Rotary Club. She has also volunteered on the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department steering committee.
* Councilmember Sydney Verinder, a native Texan, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas A&M University. He moved to Vienna in 1986, was elected to the Town Council in 2003 and was reelected in 2005. Verinder works in the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Transportation as a management and program analyst. He served on the Vienna Planning Commission from 1994 to 2003 and is the council's representative to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. He is also a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America and a block captain for the town's neighborhood watch, and he sits on the Environmental Quality Steering Committee for the Virginia Municipal League. Verinder is married to Laura E. Verinder and has three grown children. He also raises seeing-eye puppies for Guiding Eyes for the Blind.