2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 135
Commending Joseph P. Casey, Ph.D.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 3, 2026
Agreed to by the Senate, March 5, 2026
WHEREAS, Joseph P. Casey, Ph.D., an esteemed public administrator who has greatly served Chesterfield County as its county administrator for the past decade, will retire on July 1, 2026; and
WHEREAS, Joseph “Joe” P. Casey, Ph.D., earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Richmond and worked briefly as an accountant with KPMG before embarking on his career in local government as a deputy county administrator with Hanover County; and
WHEREAS, Joe Casey earned both a master's degree in public finance and a doctoral degree in public policy from Virginia Commonwealth University and served for three years as deputy county manager of Henrico County before he was appointed county administrator of Chesterfield County in July 2016; and
WHEREAS, as county administrator, Joe Casey oversaw a staff of more than 4,000 full-time employees and an operating budget of $2.4 billion to implement an array of programs and services benefitting the citizens of Chesterfield County; and
WHEREAS, during his tenure, Joe Casey bolstered Chesterfield County's long-term fiscal standing by attracting a number of world-class businesses to the locality, generating $12 billion in capital investment and the creation of 10,200 new jobs, which helped the locality become the first in the Commonwealth to achieve a Quad-AAA bond rating; and