Jeanne Townsend

Jeanne currently serves as the President of Oliverian’s Board of Trustees. She earned her BA from Duke University, and her JD from Washington University School of Law, where she was on the Editorial Board of the Law Review. After law school, she settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where she became a partner with Goldstein and Price, specializing in maritime law. In addition to practicing law, Jeanne has served on several non-profit boards, including the St. Louis Woman’s Club and the St. Louis Black Repertory Theater, and currently serves as a Provisional Magistrate Court judge in Clayton, Missouri. She and her husband, Tom, are also involved in various capacities at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where their oldest son, Alex (Oliverian ’08) attended college. They run the Alex Townsend Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization that produces the A-Town Get Down, an annual music and arts festival in Savannah, Georgia, and operates Pianos for People, whose mission is to pair unused pianos with lower income families in the St. Louis area. Jeanne has been an active volunteer at Oliverian since Alex started here, as a charter student, in 2004. Before serving on its Board of Trustees, she served on the Oliverian Advisory Board. Her husband, Tom, co-founder of Rodgers Townsend advertising agency, has been extensively involved in Oliverian’s marketing campaigns. Jeanne enjoys hiking and mountain climbing, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. Jeanne and Tom have two other children, Nate and Laura.