Jeannie B. Wright

Ms. Wright retired from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. In her former position as an Executive Vice President, she was responsible for the Personal Financial Planning department as well as Corporate Relations and Community Affairs. Her financial planning responsibilities included managing a group of professionals that provided planning services to the clients of the firm’s Financial Consultants. She also acted as a liaison between the firm and the activities of civic, cultural, educational and other community organizations. Ms. Wright graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, and has subsequently earned the professional designations of Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC). She currently serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers.
 
Ms. Wright is involved with several non-for-profit organizations. An avid nature lover and birder, Ms. Wright is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Georgia where she serves as Chair of the Finance Committee and is the representative for Georgia to the Trustee Council. As a United Way volunteer, she serves as Co-Chair of the Financial Review Committee, and is a member of the committee that reviews grant requests submitted by area agencies. She also serves as Treasurer of the Georgia Ornithological Society, and is on the Board of Mary Hall Freedom House, an organization devoted to the treatment of substance abuse for women and women with children. Ms. Wright volunteers once a week at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. Most recently she has agreed to serve as an “ambassador” for EARTH University in Costa Rica, an institution dedicated to education in sustainable development of agriculture and natural resources. When not volunteering, she is traveling, birding or working in her garden.