Bert Mizusawa

Bert Mizusawa graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. His Army career spanned more than four decades and ended at the rank of major general; from 2011 to 2016 he held senior roles including Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and from 2014 to 2015 he commanded the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force in Afghanistan. He was a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1995 to 1998, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2001, and a senior adviser to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He later founded a federal contracting firm and a law practice and now heads a consulting firm in McLean, Virginia. He won the August 4, 2026 Republican primary over David Williams and a candidate named Farington, and faces Democratic incumbent Mark Warner on November 3.