Alfonso Lopez is currently the state delegate representing Virginia's 49th district. He was elected in 2012 and has served for 5 terms. He is the chair of the Chesapeake subcommittee on the Agriculture, Chesapeake, and Natural Resources Committee; he is a member of the Public Safety Committee, the Rules Committee, and the Labor & Commerce Committee. He is also the chair of the Virginia Small Business Commission and a member of the Virginia Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation, the Virginia Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform, and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

Alfonso Lopez is currently the Senior Corporate and Government Relations Consultant at Becker and Poliakoff, P.A., where he's been working for about 3 years. He also worked as a Legislative Assistant for the U.S. Senate from 1999-2001.

Alfonso Lopez is originally from Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's of Arts degree in American Culture, History, and Political Science from Vassar College in 1992. He went on to receive his Juris Doctorate degree in Common Law and Environmental Law from the Tulane University Law School in 1995. In 2003, he was chosen as a Fellow of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. Alfonso currently lives in Arlington along the Columbia Pike corridor with his wife and two sons.