Audrey Moore

Audrey Moore (December 28, 1928 - ) was the Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1988 to 1992.

Birth and Education
Moore was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, the daughter of William John Campbell, a Canadian who had gone to Venezuela to work in the oil industry, and Eileen, who had gone there as a nurse.

When Moore was 3 her family returned to the United States and settled in Larchmont, Westchester County, New York. William's work in oil had made him wealthy, and Audrey grew up and attended the private Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School in Massachusetts before attending Mount Holyoke College.

An incident during the 1948 Christmas holidays prompted her father to abruptly withdraw her from Mount Holyoke and enroll her at the University of New Hampshire, from which she matriculated with a bachelor of arts in economics in 1950.

While at the University of New Hampshire, she became engaged to fellow student Malcolm W. Houston, who her father strongly disliked.

Although she wanted to attend law school, her parents refused to pay for it and she instead attended the Katharine Gibbs School, a secretarial school in New York City, commuting on the train from her family's mansion in Larchmont.

Armed with her newly acquired secretarial skills and wanting to be near her fiance, who was pursuing his masters degree, she moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1950 and worked as an administrative assistant to trademark specialist and lobbyist Anna C. Van Sickler until 1955.

Shortly after moving to the D.C. area, her engagement to Huston broke up. In 1954, while on a Sunday hike on Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park in Sperryville, Virginia, she met her future husband, Samuel V. Moore. The couple married the following year, and Moore and her husband moved to Fairfax County in 1956.

Political Career
Not content with being a housewife, Moore began learning about planning by visiting the office of Rosser Payne, Fairfax County's chief planning official. The scandal that broke in 1966 in which 15 Fairfax supervisors, developers and bureaucrats were indicted for exchanging bribes for zoning changes seemed to galvanize Moore to action.

She spearheaded a 1966 campaign to protect what is now Wakefield Park from development, and was president of the Fairfax Hills Civic Association from 1966 to 1971.

In 1971 Moore rode the wave of hostility that the voters of Fairfax County felt towards the unrestrained development that had nearly doubled the county's population in the 1960's and was elected as the supervisor from the Annandale District on November 2, 1971, defeating Republican incumbent Charles R. Majer.

She defeated Jack Herrity in 1987.

Awards and Honors
On February 14, 2001, the Fairfax County Park Authority board voted to rename the Wakefield Recreation Center after Moore, celebrating her role in helping preserve the park some 35 years earlier.