Crislip
Gov. Terry McAuliffe made three new appointments to the University of Mary Washington Board of Visitors: Heather Mullins Crislip ’95, Davis C. Rennolds ’06, and Rhonda S. VanLowe.
They will serve four-year terms, which expire June 30, 2019. The three newest board members succeed Joseph Grzeika ’83, Dorcas Hardy, and Jud Honaker, whose terms ended June 30.
Crislip, a Richmond resident, has been president and CEO of Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc. since 2012. Before that she oversaw bipartisan policy projects for the Miller Center at the University of Virginia for former Gov. Gerald Baliles and served as the staff director of the Goode National Transportation Policy Project, which was honored by President Obama in a Rose Garden ceremony in 2010. Crislip led the Miller Center’s higher education policy work, including the report Front and Center: Critical Choices for Higher Education.
Rennolds
After graduating from Mary Washington, she received a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and served as chief of staff to a Hawaii state senator as well as chief of staff and executive assistant to the chancellor of the University of Hawaii.
Rennolds, also of Richmond, is a vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting, where he has worked since 2011. He represents clients’ interests before the General Assembly. Clients include SeaWorld, Walton Group International, Virginians for the Arts, the Virginia Federation of Food Banks and the statewide Share Our Strength – “No Kid Hungry” campaign.
He previously was a special policy analyst for the Virginia Department of Transportation and a coordinator for former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s inaugural committee. Richmond’s Style Weekly named Rennolds to the “Top 40 Under 40” in 2011.
VanLowe
VanLowe, a Reston resident, has served as legal counsel to Rolls-Royce North America Inc. since 1999. Previously she provided counsel for the U.S. operations of Reebok International Ltd. in Stoughton, Massachusetts, and was an associate with two Washington, D.C., law firms, Ginsburg, Feldman & Bress and Swidler & Berlin.
An alumna of Cornell University, VanLowe received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and taught at American University, where she received the 2005 North Star Award for contributions to the Washington College of Law. A member of the Governor’s Task Force on Improving Mental Health Services and Crisis Response, VanLowe also has worked at Central Fidelity Bank and First American Bank of Virginia.