“Three of a Kind” Meet Three Come Here’s who are Eager to Serve

Cash Green, Kitty Bryant and Jeremy McGee

Cash Green, Kitty Bryant and Jeremy McGee are all members of the Class of 2025, the newest crop of city council representatives in Hampton Roads. Each won last November in their first attempts at elected office, is not native to our region, is married and had never met one another until we brought them together at the Assembly co-working space on Granby Street for this feature. They have now, and thanks to their engaging personalities and dedication to public service, are likely friends for life. 

And when you know someone in the same job as you, albeit it in a different locality, that can only help when you have an idea or advice to share about public safety, transportation, governance or even cost sharing. 

Take Cash, elected to represent District 7 or Centerville on Virginia Beach Council. “One of my priorities will be to locate a rec center for the 46,000 residents in my community.” Given the district’s location abutting Chesapeake, we asked, ‘could Virginia Beach and Chesapeake build one together?’ “I will definitely look into that,” said the San Diego native who has a certificate in theology and started out in ministry before a church elder suggested he investigate the oil and gas industry. “Before long I was overseeing health, safety and environmental matters for a company in Oklahoma.” 

That’s where he met his current wife Kenika who is from Virginia Beach. “We decided to move here where I first worked in youth counseling and then switched to selling cars. I found I was good at it.” Indeed, he became the top salesman at Perry Buick/Subaru in Norfolk and now is a showroom star at RK Subaru in Virginia Beach. “I like to meet new people and talk.” 

Kitty Bryant is also no wallflower. Growing up in New Jersey (her dad fought in Vietnam), she studied journalism at Rutgers and then followed her future husband (Hunter, now in the shipping industry) to Hampton Roads where Kitty reported for the Smithfield Times, learning the inner workings of local governments while also covering crime, including Michael Vick’s dog fighting case in Surry County. Needing more income, she earned a masters in secondary education and taught history at Phoebus High in Hampton for five years but left teaching to spend more time with her family (two sons now 13 and 11 and a daughter age 7). “We live in Olde Towne and love it,” she says. “I became a volunteer with CASA and our civic league and have had paid positions with the business association and the family and children ministry at my church.” 

A Lefcoe Leadership Program grad, Kitty wondered why there was just one woman on Portsmouth City Council. So in the fall, she was one of five among eleven candidates for three seats. Two, her plus Yolanda Thomas (“another working mom with kids in public school”) won, bringing a new perspective to the needs of all citizens. 

Jeremy McGee became a business entrepreneur at an early age. With two buddies, the South Carolina native started a tech firm while in high school, buying parts and constructing computers, earning good money, national recognition and a college scholarship for their zeal. “At the University of South Carolina, I began another company that created filtering technology to remove pornography and rofanity from internet services.” A Norfolk firm bought that outfit, and he moved here, buying a downtown condo with wife Malia. “I am now CEO of Radiant Digital with fifty employees spread across 17 states.” The company stands up popular websites, like www.beliefnet.com, and secures ad support. And Malia? “We bought the old Freemason Inn off Brambleton Avenue six years ago and turned it into Four Eleven York, an upscale boutique inn and restaurant. My wife runs that.” 

Now Jeremy (42), Kitty (43) and Cash (51), all self-starters, are bringing new energy to their city governments, and are up to considering fresh, and regional, approaches, to problem solving. And thanks to our conversation, if they need an ear, they now have each other.