Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced three appointments to the VCU Board of Visitors on Wednesday. The new members will fill the vacancies in the university’s highest governing body created by Democratic lawmakers when they removed three members in February.
The new members are Heidi Schlicher Cook, a VCU alum, lobbyist and Senior Vice President of Old Dominion Public Affairs; Towne Bank president Alexis Swann and Harry Thalhimer, the president of Thalhimer Headwear.
The Thalhimer family have been major donors to VCU. They have an endowment in the VCU School of Business and they established a scholarship in 1986. They are also the namesake of the Thalhimer Tennis Center on Cary Street…