Jean Case

Infobox Person
name = Jean Case


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birth_date = 1959
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residence = McLean, Virginia
other_names = Jean Wackes [cite web |url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/GEIS/102658997.spectrum_august_september.1986.pdf |publisher=GE Information Services Company |title=Spectrum (newsletter for employees of GEnie, includes 1986 photo of Jean Wackes) |format=PDF |date=August/September 1986 |quote=Jean Wackes (Senior Communications Specialist, Advertising and Sales Promotion)... Wackes (who had worked for The Source)...] [cite news |url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911204&slug=1320933 |title=The Seattle Times |publisher=Knight-Ridder Newspapers |date=1991-12-04 |quote=Jean Wackes, marketing vice president...]
Jean Villanueva
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education = Westminster Academy
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employer =
occupation = • CEO of the Case Foundation
• Chair of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation
boards = • Malaria No More
• Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
• Millennium Promise
• America's Promise
• The Potomac School
spouse = Steve Case (1998–present)
website = [http://casefoundation.org/ CaseFoundation.org]
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Jean N. Case [ [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/donate/aboutus.html National Geographic Society: About Us - Council of Advisors: Jean N. Case] ] (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 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 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.

Biography

Case grew up in Illinois and Florida [ [http://www.casefoundation.org/about/overview The Case Foundation: About Us] . "The Cases ... in their home states of Hawaii and Florida"] , and attended high school at the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, graduating in 1978.cite news |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6470983_ITM |title=AOL Chairman, Wife Donate $8.35 Million to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., School. |author=O'Connor, Lona |coauthors=Hirschman, Bill |publisher=South Florida Sun-Sentinal |date=2000-10-17 |quote=Case, a 1978 graduate, and her husband, Steve, chairman of America Online... headmaster Ken Wackes announced that the Cases had donated $8.35 million.] [cite news |url=http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102400/bus_4416112.html |title=World of Business: Gays ask AOL chief, wife to reconsider gift |publisher=The Florida Times-Union |date=2000-10-24] [cite news |first=Katharine |last=Mieszkowski |url=http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/01/gay_aol/ |title=You've got hate mail: Steve and Jean Case's $8.35 million donation to a school affiliated with an anti-gay ministry prompts a call for a boycott of AOL. |publisher=Salon.com |date=2000-11-01]

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). [http://www.secinfo.com/dsvRq.921u.htm Information for Jean N. Villanueva from SEC filing for America Online Inc.] 1996-10-31.] She left AOL in 1996.cite news |url=http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/1996/10/21/weekinbiz.html |title=AOL exec takes leave |publisher=Washington Business Journal |date=1996-10-18 |quote=Jean Villanueva, vice president of corporate communications for America Online Inc., said she will take a six-month leave of absence from the company ... Steve Case disclosed earlier this year that he and Villanueva were romantically involved.]

Jean Villanueva and Steve Case married in 1998 in a ceremony officiated by the Rev. Billy Graham. [cite news |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB899933350501468000.html?mod=googlewsj |archiveurl=http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Digits%3A+Steve+Case+Jean+Villanueva+married&btnG=Search+Archives&oe=utf-8&um=1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 |date=1998-07-09 |archivedate=1998-07-09 |title=Digits: "You've got married" |publisher=Wall Street Journal |quote=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.] They and their four daughters from previous marriages reside in McLean, Virginia, in a mansion that was the childhood home of Jacqueline Bouvier.cite news |url=http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/3250.html|title=Second Coming |author=Eisler, Kim |publisher=The Washingtonian |date=2007-02-01]

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. The other winners that night were Dick and Lynne Cheney, who were given the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service.

References

External links

* [http://www.casefoundation.org/ The Case Foundation]
* [http://www.malarianomore.org/ Malaria No More]
* [http://www.playpumps.org/ PlayPumps International]
* [http://www.uspalestinianpartnership.org/site/c.kjJQJ7MSIuE/b.4113011/k.7C95/USPalestinian_Partnership.htm/ U.S.-Palestinian Partnership]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538662,00.html "How the New Philanthropy Works"] -- "Time" op-ed by President Bill Clinton, First Lady Laura Bush, and Case Foundation CEO Jean Case, Sept. 24, 2006
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PutmaRvCzkQ/ Video of Jean and Steve Case speaking at the 2007 Global Philanthropy Forum, July 5, 2007]
* [http://video.state.gov/?fr_story=3546ce657c66ae51d9ce1884fb1e5d19da93fc5f/ Video of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S.-Palestinian Partnership (UPP) Chairman Walter Isaacson, and UPP Co-Chairs Ziad Asali and Jean Case] -- at a meeting and joint press availability with U.S. business leaders and UPP, April 29, 2008