Gerald L. Baliles

Gerald L. Baliles

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Phone: 434-924-6061

Governor Baliles is Director of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, a leading public policy institution at the University of Virginia. Founded in 1975, the Miller Center is a nonpartisan public policy institution devoted to studying, examining, and sharing information about American government and the Presidency, and promoting discourse and bipartisan consensus on issues of national and international policy.

Governor Baliles previously served as a Virginia legislator, Attorney General (Outstanding Attorney General in 1985) and Governor (1986-1990). During his tenure as Governor, he served as Chairman of the National Governors Association. As a partner at the law firm of Hunton and Williams, he chaired the section on international law, and practiced aviation law, as well as chaired such national and regional entities as the Presidentially-appointed Commission on Airline Competitiveness, the Southern States Energy Board, the Chesapeake Bay Blue Ribbon Panel, the Education Quality Committee of the Southern Regional Education Board, the AGB Commission on Academic Presidency, and the AGB Commission on the State of the Presidency in Higher Education. He serves on the Boards of Altria and Norfolk Southern, is on the board of the Council on the Study of the Presidency and Congress, served as Chairman of PBS for multiple terms, and has served on several other civic and corporate Boards, including Newport News Shipbuilding, the Nature Conservancy in Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society. He holds honorary degrees from eleven institutions of higher education.

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