Virginia Mae Brown

Virginia Mae Brown (born November 13, 1923 in Pliny, West Virginia; died February 15, 1991 in Charleston, West Virginia ) was an American lawyer and government employee. She was the first female director of the Interstate Commerce Commission regulator .

Life

The daughter of Felix M. Brown and Hester Crandall graduated from the University of West Virginia in 1945 with a bachelor's degree . She then studied as one of two female students at the law school of this university and graduated from law in 1947.

After graduation, she began working for West Virginia Attorney General Ira J. Partlow . In 1949 she became executive secretary of the West Virginia college of judges. From 1952 to late 1960, she was Assistant Attorney General of West Virginia. She then worked as an advisor to the Governor of West Virginia William Wallace Barron until May 1961 before being appointed to the state's insurance commission. In 1962 she became a member of the West Virginia Public Service Commission. Virginia Mae Brown was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Interstate Commerce Commission on the vacated seat of Clyde E. Herring in 1964. She took office on May 24, 1964. In accordance with the schedule, she headed the agency in 1969. In 1970 she was appointed for a further term until December 31, 1977. Temporarily she remained in office until July 23, 1979. Her successor was Darius W. Gaskins Jr.

She then became President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Buffalo Bank in Eleanor . From 1984 she served as an appeal judge at the United States Department of Labor in Charleston and the Social Security Administration .

In 1955 she married the lawyer James Vernon Brown. The couple had two children. The marriage ended in divorce. She died of a heart attack in her Charleston home.

Web links

• McEntee, Sheila "Virginia Mae Brown." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 3rd December 2015
• Obituary in the New York Times on February 27, 1991