People: Valley Financial Corp (VYFC.OQ)

Mrs. Anna L. Lawson serves as an Independent Director of Valley Financial Corp., since March 1994. Her corporate experience includes 12 years on the board of Frigid Freeze Foods, a frozen food distributorship in Salem, VA, where she acted as corporate secretary for most of her tenure. She is a founding organizer/director of Valley Financial Corporation and Valley Bank, where she chaired the ALCO Oversight Committee for 15 years, and now chairs the Human Resources and Nominating Committees. In the non-profit arena, she has held writing and editorial positions at Hollins College and the Kettering Foundation in Ohio. She has served on a number of non-profit boards, including four which she chaired in recent years: Total Action Against Poverty (TAP, the Roanoke area's community action agency), Hollins University, The Nature Conservancy - Virginia Chapter, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities). In addition to the Company and Bank, Ms. Lawson has served as director or trustee of the following entities during the past five years: Virginia Environmental Endowment, Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy - VA Chapter, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Art Museum of Western Virginia (Taubman Museum), and the Virginia Historical Society. Mrs. Lawson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Hollins College and PhD from the University of Virginia.