| Jean Case | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Residence | McLean, Virginia |
| Other names | Jean Wackes[1] Jean Villanueva |
| Education | Westminster Academy |
| Occupation | • CEO of the Case Foundation |
| Board member of | • National Geographic Society Board of Trustees •Malaria No More • Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure • Brainscope • Miraval Resort • The Potomac School •National Geographic Ventures • ePals |
| Spouse | Steve Case (1998–present) |
| Website | |
| CaseFoundation.org | |
Jean N. Case[2] (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.
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 Palestinian 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 National Geographic Society's board of trustees[3] and on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), ePals, Brainscope, Miraval Resort,[4] SnagFilms, National Geographic Ventures 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 and the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund.
Case grew up in Illinois and Florida,[5] and attended high school at the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, graduating in 1978.[6]
She held positions as a marketing manager with online information services Source Telecomputing Corporation (The Source) and General Electric Information Services (GEnie), then joined America Online (AOL) serving as Director of Marketing (October 1988), then Vice President, Marketing (August 1989) and finally Vice President, Corporate Communications (April 1993).[7] She left AOL in 1996.[8]
Jean Villanueva and Steve Case married in 1998 in a ceremony officiated by the Rev. Billy Graham.[9] They and their four daughters from previous marriages reside in McLean, Virginia, in a mansion that was the childhood home of Jacqueline Bouvier.[10]
As a noted philanthropist, she along with Steve received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship in 2001. The award was given out by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. In 2011, Jean and Steve Case, were honored as Citizens of the Year by the National Conference on Citizenship[11] and interviewed by Stephanie Strom of The New York Times about their record of service and philanthropic endeavors.