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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
In 1980, John Gray, who is now a circuit court judge in Hampton, gave me a glimpse of the “Map Room” he had established in the General Assembly building in Richmond.
Mr. Gray was then chairman of the House of Delegates Privileges and Elections Committee, a national census was in progress and state legislative and congressional districts would require redistricting the following year.
Mr. Gray’s committee and its counterpart in the State Senate would play the major role in that politically crucial process and already the maps and demographic information was being laid out for preliminary analysis and tinkering.
Of course, as we now know, what Mr. Gray’s committee and the House eventually wrought in the way of House redistricting was challenged in court successfully, leading to the establishment of single-member districts throughout the state. It also led to the necessity of elections for
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