Evelyn H. Janney

District: 3

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

EvFloyd County cattle producer Evelyn H. Janney of Floyd was re-elected to a second term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors in November 2007.

Janney chairs the VFBF Natural and Environmental Resources & Forestry Advisory Committee and is a member of the Membership Services Advisory Committee and Rural Health Advisory Committee. She also serves on the boards of the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and that organization’s Resource Advisory Committee.

She has been a Farm Bureau member since 1976 and is a past president of the Floyd County Farm Bureau and the 1991 VFBF Farm Woman of the Year. She also served on the committee that established the 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 Committees 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 citizen representative of the New River Valley on the Virginia Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. She is a former member and chairman of her local Southern States co-op board and 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.

Janney and her husband, Chester, have three children and six grandchildren.