Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Attorney-client privileged records are closed for 75 years per Code of Virginia 2.2-2705.1-8 and 42.1-78 . Restricted material has been sealed, but has not been removed from the collection.

Preferred Citation

Records of the Communications Office-Christina Nuckols, Governor Terry McAuliffe, 2014-2016 (bulk 2014), Accession 53532, State Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Office of the Governor, Patrick Henry Building, 1111 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, accession 53532 transferred on 14 January 2022.

Historical Information

The Communications Office is a division of the Office of the Governor in the Executive Branch of Virginia state government. The office was also responsible for making the Governor's public schedule, press releases, executive orders, proclamations, and selected speeches available online.

Governor McAuliffe originally named Jamie Radice as Communications Director. Brian Coy, who was originally Press Secretary, was promoted to this position upon Radice's departure in December of 2014.

Christina Nuckols, a long-time and very well thought of political journalist in Virginia who the administration had brought in to focus on media relations on Medicaid, moved from the Secretary of Health and Human Resources office into the governor's office as Deputy Communications Director. Coy continued as McAuliffe's lead spokesman, with Nuckols focused more on speech writing and other related matters.

Scope and Content

Governor Terry McAuliffe Communications Office Records of Christina Nuckols are housed in two archival boxes. The collection is comprised of one large series of Correspondence and Subject files, almost exclusively from 2014. These records include correspondence and email, speech and presentation drafts, memorandums, talking points, meeting minutes, and news clippings. These records document the activities of Deputy Communications Director, Christina Nuckols, focused on speech writing and Health Care initiatives such as Medicaid, A Healthy Virginia initiative and the Affordable Care Act. The two other major subjects of Nuckol's records are Restoration of Rights and the Governors Commission on Integrity and Public Confidence in State Government.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following subseries:

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The Governor Terry McAuliffe Administration Web Archive Collection, 2014-2018

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