Herndon's del Aguila New County Dems' Chair

Cesar del Aguila of Herndon won by a narrow margin to become the new Chair of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee last week.

Del Aguila won by just four votes, beating  Barbara Caputo, committee regional vice chair-north, by a vote of 208 to 204. Caputo is the wife of former state delegate Chuck Caputo.

"On Tuesday evening FCDC chose new leadership full of energy and representative diversity to keep Northern Virginia moving forward,” del Aguila said in a statement.  “I’m optimistic that with this new team, we’ll take the largest Democratic committee in Virginia to a new level of effectiveness and influence in 2012 and beyond.”

Members also chose 12 officers, nine of whom are newly elected to those positions.

The full Officers list (excluding District Chairs who were elected last month) is as follows:

Vice Chair South:  Christopher Ambrose

Vice Chair North:  Sue Langley

Vice Chair Central:  Carrie Nixon

Vice Chair for Precinct Operations:  Tania Hossain

Vice Chair for Technology:  Todd Smyth

Vice Chair for Voter Registration and Get Out the Vote Operations:  Chrisi West

Vice Chair for Finance:  Kristin Cabral

Vice Chair for Outreach:  Martin Taylor

Corresponding Secretary:  Bridget Murphy

Recording Secretary:  Matthew Bell

Treasurer:  Nadja Z. Golding

Assistant Treasurer:  Sue Thomas