Jean R. Packard

Jean R. Packard was the Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1972 to 1976.

Packard moved to Fairfax County in 1951 with her husband, Fred, who eventually was named the first full-time director of the Fairfax County Park Authority.

Packard attempted to gain the Democratic nomination for Supervisor of the Annandale District in 1971, but was defeated by Audrey Moore.

The resignation of William S. Hoofnagle on September 18, 1972, necessitated a special election to fill the Chairman's seat on the Board of Supervisors. Packard was able to gain the Democratic party nomination on October 3, defeating challengers Susan G. Clark and R. Warren Dacus.

In the special election Packard was selected by the voters from a crowded field that included Republican William B. Wrench as well as Marian K. Agnew, Thomas H. Woods, Robert J. Neyhart, and Frank J. Kuhn, Jr. on November 7.

Awards and Honors
Packard was the 35th recipient of the Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations' Fairfax County Citizen of the Year award in 1986.

In 2010, Packard received the Fairfax County Park Authority's Sally Ormsby Environmental Stewardship Award.

The Northern Virginia Conservation Trust's lifetime achievement award was renamed the Jean R. Packard Award in her honor in 2011.