DATE: Sunday, November 2, 1997              TAG: 9711010312

SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS     PAGE: 22   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY IDA KAY JORDAN, STAFF WRITER 

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ATTORNEY NAMED TRUSTEE OF BEAZLEY FOUNDATION

Diane Pomeroy Griffin has been elected to the board of trustees of the Beazley Foundation Inc., a Portsmouth-based philanthropic organization. A Portsmouth attorney, she was graduated from University of Virginia and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at College of William and Mary. In addition to a private practice, she is certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a general and family mediator and serves as Commissioner in Chancery for the Third Judicial District of Virginia.

She is past president and founder of the Tidewater Women's Bar Association and past president of the Portsmouth Bar Association.

Griffin has served as an officer and board member of a number of organizations including Girls Inc. of Southwestern Hampton Roads, the Planning Council, Portsmouth Area Resources Coalition and Help and Emergency Response (HER) Inc. Currently she serves on the Portsmouth Partnership board and the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

She is married to attorney, Earl Griffin, and they have two children.

Griffin joins Justice Richard Bray, former Gov. Mills Godwin Jr., City Councilman Ward Robinett Jr., Leroy T. Canoles Jr., John T. Kavanaugh, Ashton Lewis and Lawrence W. I'Anson Jr. on the board.

I'Anson is president of the foundation which was founded in 1948 by the late Fred W. Beazley, a Portsmouth businessman. The foundation has assets of $60 million. Since its founding, it has contributed more than $32 million to a variety of non-profit organizations. In addition to grants funding, it operates the Beazley Senior Center and, in partnership with the Portsmouth Health Department, the City Dental Clinic and School Dental Program.

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