Gerald L. Baliles

Gerald L. Baliles

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Governor Gerald L. Baliles, Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, served as the 65th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. His tenure as governor capped a career in public service that included serving as the attorney general of Virginia (1982–85) and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1976–82). After leaving public office, he entered private law practice as a partner in the firm of Hunton & Williams, LLP, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

A member of the Virginia State Bar and the American Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association, and the Richmond Bar Association, Baliles is admitted to practice at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He serves on the corporate boards of the Altria Group and the Norfolk Southern Corporation, and has served on the boards of the Greater Richmond World Affairs Council; the Greater Richmond Transportation Advocacy Board, and the Richmond Symphony Council. He chaired the Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry for the President and Congress. He has also served as chair of PBS and throughout most of his professional life has been at the forefront of activities related to preserving the Chesapeake Bay. Always a champion of education, he founded the Patrick County Education Foundation and served as chairman of the Commission on the Academic Presidency and for the Task Force on the State of the Presidency in Higher Education, for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.

Baliles holds a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School. He became the Miller Center's fifth director in April 2006. Founded in 1975, the Miller Center is a nonpartisan public policy institution. The Miller Center's mission is to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.

Governor Baliles and his wife, Robin, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia.