
(1946 – 2016) Ansley served on the boards of the Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Preservation Center, Trust for Public Land in Georgia, Atlanta Girls School, and many others. For three years she served as regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, with which she had been involved for more than two decades. Charged with the mission of educating the public about George Washington, she helped raise funds for a center at Mount Vernon for the study of the first president. Ansley was the daughter of Anna Boyce Rankin Lineberger ’35 and the mother of Anna Ansley Davis ’94. She served on the Hollins Board of Trustees for 24 years and received the Hollins Distinguished Alumnae Award.