Gerald Baliles

Gerald Baliles
Chair of the National Governors Association
In office
August 9, 1988 – August 1, 1989
Preceded byJohn H. Sununu
Succeeded byTerry Branstad
65th Governor of Virginia
In office
January 18, 1986 – January 13, 1990
LieutenantDouglas Wilder
Preceded byChuck Robb
Succeeded byDouglas Wilder
34th Attorney General of Virginia
In office
January 16, 1982 – June 30, 1985
GovernorChuck Robb
Preceded byMarshall Coleman
Succeeded byWilliam Broaddus
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the 35th district
In office
January 14, 1976 – January 13, 1982
Preceded byHoward Carwile
Succeeded byC. Hardaway Marks
Personal details
Born
Gerald Lee Baliles

(1940-07-08)July 8, 1940
Stuart, Virginia, U.S.
DiedOctober 29, 2019(2019-10-29) (aged 79)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
(m. 1965; div. 1996)
Robin Deal
(m. 2003)
Children4
EducationWesleyan University (BA)
University of Virginia (LLB)

Gerald Lee Baliles (July 8, 1940 – October 29, 2019) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia whose career spanned great social and technological changes in his native state.[1] The 65th Governor of Virginia (from 1986 to 1990), the native of Patrick County previously served as the Commonwealth's attorney general (1982–85), and represented Richmond and Henrico County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1972-1982). After another stint in private legal practice, with Hunton & Williams (1991-2005), Baliles directed the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs associated with his alma mater, the University of Virginia (2006-2014).[2]

  1. ^ "Gerald L. Baliles" Roanoke Times (November 10, 2019), viewed online 11/13/19
  2. ^ "Miller Center". University of Virginia. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.