Evelyn H. Janney

District: 3

Counties: Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski and Wythe

Evelyn H. Janney, president of the Floyd County Farm Bureau, was elected Dec. 1, 2004, to a three-year term on the VFBF Board of Directors.

Janney has been a Farm Bureau member since 1976. She and her husband, Chester, have a cow/calf operation. She currently serves on the VFBF Rural Health Advisory Committee and was the organization’s 1991 Farm Woman of the Year. She also served on the committee that established Farm Bureau’s Virginia AgPAC political action committee and is a former AgPAC trustee.

On the local level she has served as Floyd County Farm Bureau’s legislative director and Women’s Committee chairman and co-chairman. She has served on both the local and state-level Farm Bureau Resolutions Committee and has been an active participant in VFBF policy development.

Janney is a member of the Floyd County Planning Commission, a citizen representative on the New River Planning District Commission, and a former member and chairman of her local Southern States co-op board. She also is a former legal secretary.

She attends Stonewall Brethren/Methodist Church, where she is the organist and pianist, a youth teacher and an active volunteer. She also is a member of the Floyd Courthouse Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and has been active in local 4-H activities.