A Republican, he is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 83rd district after defeating Nancy Guy in 2021.
[1] He resigned on April 3, 2023, to run for election to the Virginia Senate's 19th district.
[3] In 2022, Anderson filed an unsuccessful lawsuit attempting to prevent bookstores from selling two books, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, to anyone under 16 years of age.
He believed they violated state obscenity laws due to their pornographic depictions.
[4][5][6] Anderson is a practicing attorney and owner of a gun store.