From Fox News: Scandal-plagued Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones announced his transition team late Thursday, naming former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to help lead it.
Northam’s term, which preceded outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s, was enveloped in scandal in 2019 after the right-leaning news site Big League Politics released the governor’s page from the 1984 edition of the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook that depicted a person wearing blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Northam, previously a pediatrician from Onancock, Virginia, was announced as the topline co-chair by Jones’ campaign on Thursday.
Other members of Jones’ transition team include Pamela Northam, former Virginia Deputy Attorney General Cynthia Hudson and former Obama judicial appointee Timothy Heaphy – who served as chief investigative counsel for the House January 6 Select Committee.
Jones’ team also includes two elected-Democrat law enforcement officials – the top prosecutor for the city of Richmond and Sheriff Gabe Morgan of Newport News.
Jay Jones announces transition team for Virginia Attorney General, co-chaired by former Governor Ralph Northam among others. pic.twitter.com/Mq1lhrl9vC
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) November 6, 2025
Jones himself became embroiled in a disturbing scandal weeks before the election, as texts surfaced in which he had expressed the desire to put “two bullets” in the head of a state Republican lawmaker, and wished for his wife and children to die.
Despite the violent, vile nature of Jones’ comments, Virginia voters STILL elected him as the top prosecutor in their state.
In May, Jones released a campaign ad with Northam endorsing him.
Gov. Ralph Northam: “There’s no one I trust more to stand up to Trump and Musk than you Jay.”
Our second ad of the campaign is now live: pic.twitter.com/lCWasoolLC
— Jay Jones (@jonesjay) May 20, 2025
The Susan B. Anthony pro-life group had warned last month ab out the close ties between Jones and Northam, and posted a reminder of the moment when Northam had touted that if a baby is born alive during an abortion procedure, the mother and doctors would then decide whether or not it should be allowed to live.
REMINDER: Jay Jones touted ex-Governor Ralph Northam’s endorsement and said he was “proud to call [Northam] my friend.”
Let’s hear what Northam said about letting babies who survive abortions die one more time: https://t.co/AlhNSQuVRM https://t.co/BwTQFxiNUe pic.twitter.com/WqUNkL3ANR
— SBA Pro-Life America (@sbaprolife) October 21, 2025
INBOX: Former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam & former Virginia first lady Pamela Northam are two of the co-chairs of Attorney General-elect Jay Jones’ transition team #vapol
— Julia Manchester (@JuliaManch) November 7, 2025
Jay Jones’ transition team to be co-led by ex-governor from blackface scandal, abortion outrage https://t.co/NNgvWmHA8a #FoxNews
— Vote RED! (@PetsRescues) November 7, 2025
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