Meet Ward

Delegate Ward L. Armstrong has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1992. He serves on the Courts of Justice, General Laws, and Counties, Cities & Towns committees.

Delegate Armstrong is a 1980 graduate of The T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, and a 1977 graduate of Duke University, where he earned a degree in business. During law school, he studied for a summer at Cambridge University in England. After law school, he worked as a law clerk to Justice W. Carrington Thompson of the Supreme Court of Virginia for one year. He has practiced law in Martinsville since 1981.

Delegate Armstrong is a recipient of the A.L. Philpott Award for Leadership. He is past president of the Martinsville-Henry County Bar Association; a member of the Virginia Museum of Transportation Board of Directors; and a member of the Norfolk and Western Historical Society.

Delegate Armstrong was raised in Bassett, graduating from John D. Bassett High School in 1974.

Delegate Armstrong and his wife, Pam, live with their two daughters, Courtney, 19 and Whitney, 16 in Collinsville. The Armstrongs are members of Pocahontas Bassett Baptist Church. A model and toy train collector since his childhood, Delegate Armstrong enjoys working on his trains in his free time.

Delegate Armstrong with his parents. Bob and Susan Armstrong of Bassett, in the House of Delegates chamber.