Viola Baskerville

Viola Osborne Baskerville (born October 29, 1951) is a Virginia lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1998 to 2005 and as Secretary of Administration in the Cabinet of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine from 2006 to 2010. Quotes This building is an irreplaceable historical community asset. Personality: Viola Baskerville Retrieved 15 April 2025 With this initiative, I’m still working for the public good but in a volunteer position, rather than in an elected position. The work still requires listening and responding to others and engaging them and leveraging their energies to get things done. Personality: Viola Baskerville Retrieved 15 April 2025 The community rallying to preserve and honor a significant piece of history has been truly gratifying. Personality: Viola Baskerville Retrieved 15 April 2025 Everybody was looking at you, so that if you didn’t do things just right, you were somehow speaking for a whole race of people. Girl Scout CEO to deliver Black History Month lecture Retrieved 15 April 2025 A lot of times, if girls or young women don’t see people who look like them actually dare to do these things, they don’t dare because they don’t see it as something that could be done. Girl Scout CEO to deliver Black History Month lecture Retrieved 15 April 2025 In those days, for young black girls, there was the choice of singing in the choir, playing an instrument, (dancing) or girl scouting. I couldn’t dance, I was already taking piano lessons and singing in the choir, so girl-scouting fit right in. Girl Scout CEO to deliver Black History Month lecture Retrieved 15 April 2025 Leadership is about how well you listen to and help others. Any success I have attained is because I listened to someone who was much wiser than myself. Girl Scouts executive stepping down Retrieved 15 April 2025 Quotes about Viola Baskerville Baskerville, a trailblazing African American woman, embodies a new model of the public servant. Being There Matters—Redefining the Model Public Servant: Viola O. Baskerville in Profile Retrieved 15 April 2025 External links Category:Living people Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Women in law Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:People from Richmond Category:Legislators from the United States Category:1951 births Category:Women born in the 1950s