CODE OF VIRGINIA CREATION OF DEPARTMENT; APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR (ยง 36-132) There is hereby created in the executive department the Department of Housing and Community Development. The Department shall be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, to serve at the pleasure of the Governor for a term coincident with his own. HISTORY: 1977, c. 613; 1984, c. 720.