Virginia State Police Col. W. Steven Flaherty will continue to serve under the McDonnell administration, as will Patricia I. Wright, state superintendent of public instruction.
Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, also today announced the appointment of Diana F. Cantor, a partner with Alternative Investment Management and wife of Rep. Eric Cantor, R-7th, to the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System. Diana Cantor is a member of the board of directors of Media General Inc., parent company of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Mark Earley Jr., will serve as policy analyst and re-entry specialist of the Department of Correctional Education. Earley's father is a former attorney general and defeated Republican candidate for governor in 2001.
Earley previously worked with Prison Fellowship Ministries, where his father is president and CEO. The group's mission is to "seek the transformation of prisoners and their reconciliation to God, family, and community through the power and truth of Jesus Christ."
Daniel S. Timberlake is being reappointed as director of the Department of Planning and Budget and Rich Sliwoski as director of the Department of General Services.
Wright was appointed by former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, in 2008 to succeed Billy K. Cannaday Jr. when he left to become a dean at the University of Virginia. Cannaday now serves on the Virginia Board of Education.
Since starting at the Department of Education in 1985, Wright has served in capacities from math supervisor to working with early childhood to chief deputy superintendent. She helped to implement the state's Standards of Learning.
This past General Assembly session, Wright helped the McDonnell administration push through its education reform agenda, which included changes to make it easier to open public charter schools.
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