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Class of 1962

Class of 1962

Jeannie Patterson Baliles

Jeannie Patterson Baliles

A member of the Class of 1962, Ms. Baliles went on to earn a M.A.T. in history from Wesleyan University. She was inducted into the Delta Kappa Gamma honor society (education).

Ms. Baliles is the founder and chairman of the Virginia Literary Foundation and served as the Chairman of the Virginia Opera. She has served as a trustee on the Virginia Environmental Endowment, the Community Foundation of Central Virginia, and the Jenkins Foundation. She has also served on the board of Wolf Trap, the Nature Conservancy, the Jamestown-Yorktown Trust, YMCA, the Historic Richmond Foundation. She is active in Democrat Party politics.

A former First Lady of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Jeannie has two grown children, Laura A. Baliles and Jonathan T. Baliles. She enjoys travel, tennis, gardening, and yoga.

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