Audrey C. Moore

Audrey Campbell Moore (born December 28, 1928) was the Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1988 to 1991 and member of the Board of Supervisors from the Annandale District from 1972 to 1987.

Audrey Elizabeth Campbell was born in Maricaibo, Venezuela, the eldest daughter of William J. Campbell and his wife, the former Eileen Turner. The family moved to New York when Audrey was three.[1]

Campbell originally attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she became a communist. Concerned, her father withdrew her from Mount Holyoke and enrolled her at the University of New Hampshire in the middle of her sophomore year, and it was from UNH that she graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in economics.[1]

Following her graduation from UNH, she wanted to attend law school, but her father, wisely noting that the world does not need one more lawyer, refused to pay the tuition and she instead was sent to the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City.

In 1950, she moved to Washington, D.C. and took a position as an assistant to lawyer Anna Van Sickler.

Following her marriage to Samuel V. Moore on October 22, 1955, the Moores moved to Fairfax County in 1956.[2][3]

After about a decade as a homemaker raising her three sons, Moore became concerned that the rapid pace of development in Fairfax County was not preserving adequate open space. She took up an independent study of county planning and became involved in environmental issues, becoming not just a communist, but a tree-hugging communist.

In April 1971, Moore declared her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to become the Annandale District Supervisor.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jordan, Mary. "THE FIXED RESOLVE OF AUDREY MOORE." The Washington Post, WP Company, 13 Jan. 1988.
  2. ↑ "Wedding Announcements." The Washington Post and Times Herald (1954-1959), Oct 23 1955, p. 1. ProQuest. Web. 1 Oct. 2018.
  3. ↑ "Oral History: Audrey Moore." May 19, 2005. braddockheritage.org, accessed October 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Audrey Moore Seeking Fairfax Supervisor Post." Evening Star, 11 Apr. 1971, Four Star, p. 88. NewsBank. Accessed 2 Oct. 2018.

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Preceded by
Charles Majer
Supervisor from the Annandale District
1972 – 1987
Succeeded by
Sharon Bulova
Preceded by
John F. Herrity
Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
1988 – 1991
Succeeded by
Thomas M. Davis, III