Ginny Painter

Ginny Painter has more than 30 years of experience in higher education and government communications, marketing, and administration, including at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, the University of Charleston, and the Marshall University Research Corporation. She also has served as communications director and deputy commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and in communications roles for the state affiliate of the American Lung Association and the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council.

She serves on the boards of directors of the West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust and TechConnect West Virginia.

In 2001, the West Virginia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) recognized her with its prestigious Practitioner of the Year award, and she received the organization’s Chapter Service Award twice—in 1995 and again in 1999. In 2013, she received the chapter’s TriCrystal Award, an award presented to the nine members in the chapter’s 42-year history who have received both the Practitioner of the Year and Chapter Service awards, and who has served as chapter president.