Jim Plowman was born in August 1967, five months after the death of his Father. James Plowman Sr. served as the navigator on a Navy A-6 Intruder light bomber based on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. His plane was shot down during a mission over North Vietnam. (Washington Post Article)

“As a parent,” said Jim Plowman Jr., “I’ve just begun the process of imagining the challenges my Mother endured. Not only did she lose both her love and spouse, something I can’t even begin to comprehend, but she was simultaneously a first time mother and single parent.”

“There really are no words to describe her strength… she is the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known.”

Jim grew up in Northern Virginia. He graduated from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington and went on to study Economics at Virginia Tech.

After graduation Jim went to work full time for a defense contractor in Washington DC. He spent his evenings attending the National Law Center at George Washington University.

“Putting yourself through law school with a full time job was exceedingly difficult and I can’t say I loved it at the time. But in retrospect, I know I became stronger from the experience and most importantly I met my beautiful wife Angie.”

Following graduation and passing the bar exam, Jim became a Prosecutor (“Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney”) for Fairfax County, during which he prosecuted over forty jury trials and over a thousand bench trials.

“Law school teaches you law. But criminal prosecution can only be learned by being a prosecutor… Prosecutors are dealing, every day, with difficult people in the context of crimes so horrid that no sensible person can or should be able to comprehend… Criminal prosecution can easily “burn out” any sensible professional… it’s the toughest of the tough who choose to serve and it requires serious faith in God to get through some of these experiences.”

Following his time as Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Fairfax, Jim went to work for one of the world’s largest insurance companies where he fought insurance fraud as a trial attorney.

In 2003 the Republican Party of Loudoun County recruited Jim to be their candidate for Commonwealth’s Attorney.

“It really was never my plan to run for office for anything… I’m about as ‘apolitical’ as anyone can be.  However Loudoun had become one of the ‘softest’ counties in Virginia on crime.  As a Loudoun County parent, the idea that there was little or no deterrent to crime in my community was more than ‘scary.’ That was really what made up my mind to run for this office.”

Jim ran again in 2007 with overwhelming support of the community and is seeking to serve the people of Loudoun County once again.

Jim continues to prosecute criminals to the fullest extent of the law, working everyday to keep Loudoun Families Safe.