Jeannie Baliles Photograph

Jeannie Patterson Baliles (Beta Pi, Washington College) 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, and on the Board of Trustees of Virginia Union University. She is the former wife of Gerald L. Baliles, the 65th Governor of Virginia, and served as First Lady of Virginia from 1986-90.