Anne A. Wilkins

Anne Anderson Wilkins (April 23, 1914 - September 9, 1996) was the supervisor for the Falls Church district and the Mason district from 1952 to 1963.

Anne Johnston Anderson was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, one of four children of John Wesley Anderson and the former Anne Luckey 'Jenks' Johnston, and attended Winthrop College. She later attended George Washington University Law School, where she met her husband Donald L. Wilkins, whom she married on September 4, 1937. She was admitted to the Washington, D.C. Bar in 1938.

In 1950, as a member of the Fairfax League of Women Voters', Wilkins advocated before the Fairfax Government Study Commission for the adoption of the county manager form of government.

The following year, 1951, Wilkins sought the Democratic nomination for supervisor from the Falls Church District against incumbent C. B. Runyon, winning in the August 7 primary. She would go on to defeat Republican Frank Clem in the November election.

In the 1955 Democratic primary for the Mason district, Wilkins faced down a challenge by W. C. Wills. She defeated Republican James L. Deaver in the November 8 election.

Wilkins was unopposed for most of her 1959 run for re-election, although James L. Deaver did mount a last-minute write-in campaign as an independent.

In 1963, Wilkins was able to retain the Democratic party's nomination for the Mason district seat over challenger Robert H. Riner in the July 9 primary, but was defeated in the general election by Republican Stanford E. Parris.