Virginia Knauer
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Virginia Harrington Knauer (née Wright) (b. March 28, 1915) was a member of the Philadelphia City Council, and chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer, then to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (1969-1977) and later to Ronald Reagan (1981-1983).
She was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was educated at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania; she also attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Her late husband, Wilhelm F. Knauer, a lawyer, served as Deputy Attorney of Pennsylvania. They had one son, Judge Wilhelm F. Knauer, Jr. (deceased), have one daughter, Valerie Knauer Burden and three granddaughters.
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