Representatives
Brightwood is covered by 8 Single Member Districts in 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Each district elects one unpaid commissioner, your closest elected official.
Your commissioners
8 SMDs · 3 ANCs- 4A04Patience R. Singleton
- 4A05Jeffrey Holliday
- 4A06Alex Akalu
- 4A07Vacant
- 4B05Tamira Benitez
- 4D01Antti Koskenrouta
- 4D02Abel Amene
- 4D03Brendi E. Bluitt
Some of these districts may reach beyond the Brightwood boundary. Names of elected officials are public record.
Find your district
Your Single Member District depends on your exact address. DC's ANC office has a lookup that returns your district and commissioner.
Look up your SMD by address anc.dc.gov ↗Next ANC meetings
No meeting notice posted yet for the next 30 days. ANCs usually post a week or two ahead.
ANC Decoder: what's on the table
1 posts · 6 months- ANC 4A Meeting, 5/24/26Other ANC 4A · May 21
ANC 4B and ANC 4D don't publish a feed we can read, so only ANC 4A is decoded here.
What the topics mean
Each post is tagged by topic once there are posts to read.
Recent meeting notices
DC Office of ANCsDC's ANC office posts a notice for each public meeting, often with the recording. We started collecting them for Brightwood's ANCs (ANC 4A, ANC 4B, ANC 4D) on Oct 31, 2026; they'll collect here.
What an ANC does
An Advisory Neighborhood Commission is the most local level of DC government. The city is split into ANCs, and each ANC into small Single Member Districts. Every district elects one commissioner. Commissioners are unpaid neighbors.
ANCs don't make final decisions. They vote on positions and send them to DC agencies, which by law must give those positions "great weight": the agency has to respond to the ANC's concerns in writing when it decides.
- ZoningVariances, special exceptions and new development before the zoning boards
- Liquor licensesNew bars, restaurants and stores, and changes to their hours
- Public spaceSidewalk cafes, driveways, curb cuts and anything built in the public right of way
- PermitsBuilding, historic preservation and other city permits that affect the neighborhood