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Longtime Chesterfield County Supervisor James M. "Jim" Holland has died of cancer at age 73.
Holland, who represented the Dale District, was the first Black person to serve as the county's board chair.
Local, state and federal officials are mourning the death of longtime Chesterfield County Supervisor James M. “Jim” Holland.
Holland, who represented the Dale District in central Chesterfield for five decades and was the board chair three times , died Oct. 14 of cancer, according to an announcement from the county . He was 73.
”Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of serving alongside him has learned from him. Jim’s approach was always to do what he thought was best for his district and Chesterfield,” Bermuda District Supervisor Jim Ingle, the current board chair,