Publications

Women's Legislative Roundtable meetings are held every Wednesday during the Virginia General Assembly Session and are moderated by the LWV of Virginia. The first meeting of the Roundtable for the 2012 Session was January 18 and will continue through February 29. This is a forum for legislators of all parties to speak about and explain pending legislation and for non-profit groups to speak about issues that they are tracking and advocating. Watch our Calendar Section for roundtable dates and times as we prepare to move into the 2013 Session.

Reports 2012 Session:

• February 29, 2012
• February 22, 2012
• February 15, 2012
• February 8, 2012
• February 1, 2012
• January 18, 2012
• December 8, 2011: Pre-Session Summary

League of Women Voters of Virginia Positions in Brief is a 2-sided folded brochure on 8.5 x 14 inch paper listing a short description of each of the LWVVA positions.

For a listing of the complete positions and their history, see LWVVA Positions in Full

The League of Women Voters of Virginia's Legislative Directory contains a complete list of Senators and Delegates and committee assignments.

Note: This brochures prints on 8.5 X 22 paper. If you would like a copy mailed to you, please Email Us or call 757-541-8598.

The League of Women Voters of Virginia's newsletter, The Virginia Voter is published three times a year and subscription is included with all memberships. Subscription for non-members is $8.00 per year.

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Issues:

• Summer 2012
• Spring 2012
• Fall 2011
• Summer 2011
• Spring 2011
• Fall 2010
• Summer 2010
• Spring 2010
• Fall 2009
• Summer 2009
• Spring 2009
• Fall 2008
• Summer 2008
• Spring 2008

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One hundred years ago in 1909, a group of women met in Richmond -- 61 years after Seneca Falls -- to establish Virginia's Equal Suffrage League (ESL), a precursor of today's League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWV-VA). These pioneers of southern suffrage were pillars of society; they had the status to have a voice in a very traditional region. They dealt with ridicule, their efforts were dismissed, but they persevered.

The suffrage movement was sweeping the west as several western states had already allowed women to vote. Some of the Suffragists who would picket the White House in 1917, held by a president born in Virginia, Woodrow Wilson, were incarcerated at the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. The history of women's vote is intertwined with the history of Virginia. Yet Virginia did not formally ratify the 19th amendment until 1952!

The idea for a book about women's suffrage in Virginia was conceived by current LWV-VA President Olga Hernandez when she read about the founding of the Equal Suffrage League in Virginia in 1909. Virginia Women & The Vote chronicles the events of those 100 years that began with the ESL which became the League of Women Voters of Virginia and the many contributions made to the Commonwealth by the women who led these organizations.

All of the women who struggled to have their voices heard and engage in issues facing Virginians are detailed for the first time by League Historian Bernice Colvard in this comprehensive history spanning 1909 to 2009. The legacy of those Virginia women is very much alive today and continues to be a beacon to all who value good government and an informed citizenry without partisan overtones.

Read these stories and understand what Susan B. Anthony meant when she reportedly said "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." As stated by LWV-VA President Hernandez, "We've come a long way, but still have far to go. All women [and men], young and not so young, need to continue this work. The League of Women Voters [which now includes men] is as necessary today as it was in the last century."

This book is available at various libraries throughout the Virginia.

To order other publications, please contact publications@lwv-va.org or call 757-541-8598.