Vice-Chair Member Maureen Coffey began her first term in January 2024. She is the youngest person ever elected to the Arlington County Board and was unanimously elected as Vice Chair by her colleagues on January 5, 2026. Her policy focuses include housing, particularly renters’ rights, child care, transportation, and community engagement. Coffey co-leads the Board’s Audit Committee and serves as Board liaison to the Commission on the Status of Women, Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee, Housing Commission, Transportation Commission, and Tenant-Landlord Commission.  She is also the Board co-liaison to the Comprehensive Plan Update.  

Coffey also acts as the Board's Legislative Affairs Liaison working with Arlington’s General Assembly Delegation and represents the Board on the Virginia Municipal League Legislative Committee. She also serves as a commissioner on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC).  

Previously, Coffey worked on the Early Childhood Policy team at the Center for American Progress (CAP) and at the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR). Her past work has included child care, child welfare, workforce development, gender equity, and discrimination in housing and lending markets.  

Coffey previously was appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to serve from 2021 through 2025 on Virginia's Family and Children's Trust, a group focused on the prevention and treatment of family violence, including child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse and neglect. Locally, she has served as a board member of the Arlington County Civic Federation (CivFed) and has been an active member of the Clarendon-Courthouse Civic Association.  

Coffey earned her bachelor's degree in economics at Oberlin College and her Master of Public Policy from the University of Virginia. Outside of her professional work, Coffey enjoys biking the W&OD trail, listening to Taylor Swift, and trying as many different coffee shops as she can across Arlington.