Mike Pruitt is the Board of Supervisors Member representing the Scottsville District.

• Elected to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, Scottsville District, November 2023

Contact

Mike Pruitt
Scottsville District Supervisor
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 434-459-8821
Email: mpruitt@albemarle.org  

Education

• Duke University, Bachelor of Arts (Political Science)
• Georgetown University, Master of Policy Management
• University of Virginia, Juris Doctor (expected May 2024)

Committee Assignments

• 5th and Avon Community Advisory Committee
• Albemarle Broadband Authority
• High Growth Coalition
• Pantops Community Advisory Committee
• Regional Housing Partnership - Alternate
• Regional Transit Partnership
• Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC)
• Village of Rivanna Community Advisory Committee  

Biography

Mike grew up in a blue collar family in a rural part of South Carolina Blue Ridge. He attended Duke University on an NROTC scholarship before serving eight years in the United States Navy. In the Navy, he deployed as a Surface Warfare Officer aboard two ships and worked for three years at the Office of Naval Intelligence as a tactics analyst and team lead. While at ONI, Supervisor Pruitt completed a graduate degree at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. Since transitioning out of the Navy, Supervisor Pruitt has worked in the government and nonprofit sector on legal policy issues, including researching workforce development at the Urban Institute, litigating housing discrimination at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and advancing voting and housing access with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Currently in his final semester at the University of Virginia School of Law, starting September 2024 Supervisor Pruitt will work at a Virginia-based legal nonprofit as a housing discrimination attorney. He is an active member of the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP and worships at both Trinitty Episcopal Church in Charlottesville and St. George's Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, where his fiance is a minister.