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L. Scott Lingamfelter

President

Commonwealth Homeland Security Foundation

L. Scott Lingamfelter, President of the Commonwealth Homeland Security Foundation (CHSF), is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a current member of the Virginia House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly. In 2007, Delegate Lingamfelter joined the Abrams Learning and Information Systems, Inc. (ALIS) to head the support effort to the CHSF. Previously, he provided strategic planning and thought leadership support to the senior leadership for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in Washington, D.C.

Raised in Richmond, Virginia he attended the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia where he earned a B.A. degree in History in 1973. After finishing VMI as a Distinguished Military Graduate (DMG), he was commissioned in the Regular Army of the United States and began a career as a Field Artilleryman.

In 1979, the US Army awarded him a full academic scholarship to the University of Virginia where he earned a Master of Arts in Government and Foreign Affairs in 1981. After many assignments around the world during war and peace, he rose to the rank of Colonel. His last military assignment in the Army was as Military Assistant to the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Armed Forces Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College where he served as class president. He retired on June 1st, 2001, after 28 years of active duty service.

Among his numerous awards and decorations are the Defense Superior Service Medal; two Legions of Merit; the Bronze Star Medal; two Defense Meritorious Service Medals; four Meritorious Service Medals; three Joint Service Commendation Medals; the Army Commendation Medal; the National Defense Service Medal with battle star; the Southwest Asia Service Medal with three battle stars; the Kuwait Liberation Medal; the Saudi-Kuwaiti Liberation Medal; and the United Nations Service Medal.

Delegate Lingamfelter was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2001 representing Prince William and Fauquier Counties. An adherent to the Founders' vision of constitutional and conservative government, Delegate Lingamfelter is a voice for both social and fiscal conservatism in the General Assembly.

Delegate Lingamfelter is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Education Committee, and Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee, where he has distinguished himself as a clear-headed spokesman for fiscal responsibility, education reform, and public safety and security.

Delegate Lingamfelter is married to the former Shelley Glick of Bridgewater, Virginia. They have three children: Amy, currently in Christian mission work, John, a 1st Classman at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and AFROTC student; and Paul, a freshman attending Christopher Newport University. The Lingamfelter family attends Christ Our Lord Anglican Church.

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