Ann Brown
Ann Brown came to UVA from Mobile, Alabama with the encouragement of her father (Class of 1934). But her mother was horrified that she would be living in a coed dorm as an Echols Scholar. Ann was involved in student journalism with the Cavalier Daily and as a founder of the weekly newspaper, The Declaration. She was a member of the First Year Resident Staff program for two years. She was also a participant in the then-new Honor Advisors Program. Ann lived on the Lawn and was the first woman to be tapped by the IMP Society and to receive the Pete Gray (now Gray Carrington) Award. She received a BA in 1974 with an Echols major focused on American History and Government. Ann stayed on to graduate from UVA Law School in 1977. She was a member of the Raven Society and served as its first woman president during her first year of law school. She received the Raven Alumni Award in 2020. Ann practiced commercial finance law for 45 years, first in New Orleans and later in the Washington, DC area. While in New Orleans, she led the legal department for the Louisiana World’s Fair. Ann has been a serial alumni volunteer since 1979, serving on boards or committees at the Alumni Association, the College of Arts & Sciences Foundation, the Law School Alumni Association, the Women’s Center, the Mead Endowment and the Echols Scholars Program. Ann is also an active lay volunteer in the United Methodist Church. She lives in Washington with her husband, a member of the College Class of 1969. They spend as much time as they can in Charlottesville.