Elected to Town Council in 2020, Chuck Anderson previously served on the Planning Commission, including as chairperson from 2012 to 2013; the Windover Heights Board of Review; and the Executive Committee of the Malcolm Windover Heights Civic Association. He also has served as a Neighborhood Watch block captain.

Anderson is a principal and co-founder of Capital Trade, Incorporated, a Washington, DC-based economic consulting firm specializing in international trade. He was born in West Virginia; raised in the small town of Blissfield, Michigan; and has a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Williams College and a master’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.

Anderson is an active member of Falls Church Presbyterian and also is a member of Historic Vienna, Inc., and the Northeast Vienna Citizens Association. He and his wife, Laura, and two children, originally moved to Vienna in 1997.