Jean Case

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Laura Bush announces a $60 million partnership between the U.S. government and the Case Foundation at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York on Sept. 20, 2006. With her, from left, are: Raymond Chambers, Chairman, MCJ and Amelier Foundations; former President Bill Clinton; and Jean Case and Steve Case.
Laura Bush announces a $60 million partnership between the U.S. government and the Case Foundation at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York on Sept. 20, 2006. With her, from left, are: Raymond Chambers, Chairman, MCJ and Amelier Foundations; former President Bill Clinton; and Jean Case and Steve Case.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, during a briefing on volunteerism at the White House on Feb. 13, 2007. With Jean Case, chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and Bob Goodwin, president and CEO of Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, during a briefing on volunteerism at the White House on Feb. 13, 2007. With Jean Case, chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and Bob Goodwin, president and CEO of Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network.

Jean N. Case[1] (born 1959) is CEO of the Case Foundation, which she and her husband, AOL co-founder Steve Case, created in 1997. In June 2006 she was appointed by President Bush to chair the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. She is also chair of PlayPumps International.

In 2007, Case was asked by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as a co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership to promote economic opportunity for the Palestian people, prepare Palestinian youth for the responsibilities of citizenship and good governance, and marshal new private investment in the West Bank.

Case is a board member of Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the December 2006 White House Summit to end all deaths caused by malaria. She also serves on the boards of Points of Light/Hands On Network, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), ePals, Millennium Promise, America's Promise, and The Potomac School, as well as on the advisory council of the National Geographic Society and the advisory board to the National Council on Citizenship.

[edit] Biography

Case grew up in Illinois and Florida[2], and she attended high school at the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale[3], graduating in 1978.

At AOL, Case served as Director of Marketing (October 1988), then Vice President, Marketing (August 1989), and then Vice President, Corporate Communications (April 1993). She left AOL in 1996.[4] She had previously held positions as a marketing manager with General Electric Information Services and with Source Telecomputing Corporation.[5]

Jean and Steve Case married in 1998 in a ceremony officiated by the Rev. Billy Graham.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Geographic Society: About Us - Council of Advisors: Jean N. Case
  2. ^ The Case Foundation: About Us. "The Cases ... in their home states of Hawaii and Florida"
  3. ^ "World of Business", The Florida Times-Union, 2000-10-24. 
  4. ^ "AOL exec takes leave", Washington Business Journal, 1996-10-18. 
  5. ^ Information for Jean N. Villanueva from SEC filing for America Online Inc. 1996-10-31.
  6. ^ "Digits: "You've got married"", Wall Street Journal, 1998-07-09. Archived from the original on 1998-07-09. "Steve Case ... has tied the knot with companion Jean Villanueva ... the top public-relations official at AOL until she left the company in 1996. Officiating at the small ceremony was the Rev. Billy Graham ... The previous marriages of Mr. Case and Ms. Villanueva ended in divorce." 

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