About Our Party
The Republican Party in the Virgin Islands is the Republican National Committee state party for the territory of the United States Virgin Islands.
Chairman Gordon Ackley
Gordon Ackley was elected chairman in 2020 and re-elected in 2022. Before his election as chairman, he was a member of the Republican State Committee and 2016 nominee for Congress.
Through his many years in business, Ackley has created hundreds of jobs not just on St. Thomas, where he lives, but across the Virgin Islands. Ackley attended Antilles School and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving from 1973 until 1977.
Republican National Committeeman Johann (John) A. Clendenin
Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable John Clendenin, a sixth-generation native of St. Croix, is the Republican national committeeman for the Virgin Islands.
Having enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1971, he retired in 2009 as a lieutenant colonel.
Clendenin, who was chairman of the Virgin Islands delegation to the 2012 Republican National Convention, also served as Virgin Islands public service commissioner following a gubernatorial appointment to the regulatory agency in 2014.
Republican National Committeewoman April Newland
Republican National Committeeman-elect
John Yob
Vice Chairman for St. Thomas-St. John
April Newland
Vice Chairman for St. Croix
Michael Meluskey
Secretary
Barbara de la Portilla
Treasurer
Alexandra Bonthron
Republican State Committee Members
Alexandra Bonthron of St. Thomas-St. John
Major Vanessa Mull Coffen of St. Croix
Jameson (Chip) Engelhard of St. Croix
Krystal Flores of St. Croix
Andrea Hedrington of St. Thomas-St. John
Michael Meluskey of St. Croix
Valerie Stiles of St. Croix
Randolph Thomas of St. Thomas-St. John
David Weisher of St. Thomas-St. John
Mark Zion of St. Thomas-St. John
Executive Director
Dennis Lennox
Legal Counsel
Former Attorney General Terri Griffiths Esq.
