Charlottesville’s biggest donors

229 locals who gave $2,300 or more to this year’s candidates

Name Total City Employer/ Donated to
  donations   Occupation  
Ranjit Ahluwalia $6,900 C’ville Silver Point Capital/ Perriello, Obama
      Senior Analyst  
Sara Harris Ahluwalia $6,900 C’ville Silver Point Capital/ Perriello, Obama
      Attorney  
Janice Aron $6,900 Keswick Kinloch Enterprises/ Warner, Obama
      President  
Robert Aron $4,600 Keswick None/Retired Warner
Bill Atwood $5,600 C’ville Self employed/Architect Warner, Obama
Eleanor Baldwin $3,000 Keswick Self employed/ Perriello
      Psychotherapist  
David Beach $2,300 C’ville National Optronics Inc./ Warner
      Chairman  
Karen Jane Beauford $5,600 C’ville None/None Obama, Perriello
George Beller $2,500 C’ville UVA Health System/ Obama
      Cardiologist  
Gary Berry $3,203 C’ville American Public University Obama
      System/Assistant Dean  
Lillian Bevier $2,300 C’ville UVA Law School/ McCain
      Law Professor  
Michael Bills $13,800 C’ville Self employed/Investor Perriello, Warner,
        Obama
Andrew Block $7,531 C’ville Legal Aid Justice Center/ Obama, Perriello
      Attorney  
Samuel Bodily $2,300 C’ville Darden Business School/ Romney
      Professor  
Thomas Boland $3,000 C’ville Self employed/Consultant Goode, McCain
Richard Booth $6,600 C’ville HBK Capital Management/ Romney, Warner, McCain
      Managing DI  
Margaret Boyd $4,600 Earlysville BCG Transportation Obama
      Group, Inc./Transportation  
      Safety Consultant  
Nancy Briggs $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Huckabee
Katherine Brooks $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama
A. Cary Brown $2,300 C’ville Studio CB/Artist Obama
Dick Brown $2,300 C’ville None/Retired Perriello
Katherine Brown $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama
Lynn Gibbons Brown $2,800 C’ville Brown Honda Dodge/Owner McCain
Melinda Brown $2,300 C’ville None/Retired Perriello
Tomiko Brown-Nagin $2,500 C’ville UVA/Law Professor Obama
Elizabeth Burke $2,300 C’ville Burke O’Neil LLC/Attorney Clinton
Edwin Burton $2,300 C’ville UVA/Professor Goode
James Campbell $2,300 Scottsville Capital One/Executive Dodd
Robert Capon $2,300 C’ville Adenosine Therapeutics/ Warner
      Chief Executive  
R. Coran Capshaw $7,100 C’ville Red Light Management/ Perriello, Warner,
      President Obama
Thomas Carver $2,300 C’ville Harren Equity Partners/ McCain
      Fund Manager  
Douglas Caton $4,300 C’ville Management Services Goode
      Corporation/Executive  
Derwood Chase $3,300 C’ville Chase Investment Counsel Goode, Warner
      Corporation/Investment  
      Counselor  
Helena Cobban $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Writer Obama
Craig Colberg $6,900 C’ville Rivanna Capital LLC/ Romney, Thompson,
      Investor McCain
Lynne Conboy $4,600 C’ville Habitat for Humanity/ Perriello
      Voluntary Board Chair  
Anthony Corbett $2,300 C’ville Dominick & Dominick/ Romney
      Investment Advisor  
Kelly Corbett $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Romney
Daley Craig $2,300 Crozet Self employed/Developer Goode
Hunter Craig $4,300 C’ville Hunter E. Craig Company/ Warner, Goode
      Real Estate Developer  
James P. Craig III $6,900 C’ville Opportunity Capital, LLC/ Warner
      Investor  
Rebecca Craig $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Warner
Stuart Craig $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Investor Warner
Ashleigh Crocker $4,590 Keswick None/Student Perriello
Hilda Cross $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Attorney McCain
Dennis Crumpler $4,600 C’ville Techdiscovery LLC/ Obama
      Private Investor  
William Curtis $2,300 C’ville Sassings Restaurant/ McCain
      Merchant  
Charlotte Dammann $3,650 C’ville McLean Faulconer Inc./ Clinton, Perriello
      Real Estate Broker  
Ralph Dammann $3,300 C’ville Damman Construction/ Clinton, Obama
      General Contractor  
Patricia Dangelo $2,300 C’ville UVA/Lawyer Obama
Courtney Daniels $4,600 Greenwood None/Homemaker Warner
Terrence Daniels $9,200 Greenwood Quad-C Management Inc./ McCain, Warner
      Executive  
Corwith Davis $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Farmer Obama
Cynthia Davis $4,100 C’ville Self employed/ Obama, Perriello
      Clinical Social Worker  
Tim Davis $2,550 C’ville Self employed/Investor Periello
John Demaso $2,300 C’ville Sperry Marine/President Goode
Margaret Demallie $2,400 C’ville DGP Architects/Historic Perriello
      Preservation Architect  
Heather Dill $2,300 C’ville Homemaker/Homemaker McCain
Rhoda Dreyfus $4,447 C’ville None/Retired Warner, Obama
Robin Dripps $9,200 Batesville UVA/Teacher Obama, Perriello
Margaret Duensing $3,000 C’ville Self employed/Attorney Obama
Sarah Dupont $2,300 C’ville Self employed/ Clinton
      Golf Professional  
John Dusinsky $2,300 Free Union Self employed/ Clinton
      Business Owner  
Lawrence Eagleburger $3,800 C’ville None/Retired McCain
William Edgerton $6,784 C’ville The Oak Hill Fund/ Obama, Warner
      Philanthropist  
Pamela Edmonds $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Clinton
J. Kirby Farrell Jr. $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Investor Warner
Joan Fenton $4,600 C’ville Quilts Unlimited/CEO Clinton, Perriello
Kay Lee Ferguson $8,600 C’ville Self employed/ Perriello, Obama, Warner
      Arts Educator  
Eugene Fife $5,600 C’ville Goldman Sachs/ Warner, McCain, Obama
      Investment Banker  
Lu Ann File $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Warner
Andrew Fippinger $4,300 C’ville None/Student Obama
Jane Fisher $3,800 C’ville C’ville Community Design/ Perriello, Obama
      Executive Director  
Kevin Flannery $2,300 C’ville Whelan Financial/ Giuliani
      President/Owner  
Kim Forde-Mazrui $2,450 C’ville UVA School of Law/ Obama
      Professor of Law  
B. Mark Fried $2,300 Crozet Fried Companies, Inc./ Warner
      President  
Barbara Fried $2,300 Crozet None/Retired Warner
John Galbraith $9,200 C’ville None/Retired Goode, Romney, Gilmore
Rosemary Galbraith $6,900 C’ville None/Retired Romney, McCain, Goode
Marsha Gartland $2,800 C’ville CaseNEX, LLC/CEO Clinton, Obama
Betty Jones Gilliam $2,300 C’ville None/Retired McCain
Leslie Gilliam $13,800 Keswick Cumberland Resources Warner, Goode,
      Corp./Manager Giuliani, McCain
Richard Gilliam $13,800 Keswick Cumberland Resources Warner, Giuliani, Romney
      Corp./President McCain, Goode
Catherine Goldschmidt $3,764 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama
Vesta Lee Gordon $2,550 C’ville Self employed/Bookseller Perriello
      & Antiquarian  
Theodore Gould $4,200 C’ville None/Investor Dodd
William Gould $2,300 C’ville None/Unemployed Clinton
E. Renee Grisham $14,800 North None/Homemaker Clinton, Perriello,
    Garden   Warner, Obama
John Grisham $14,800 North Self employed/Writer Clinton, Warner,
    Garden   Perriello, Obama
Angela Gunter $2,300 C’ville GlaxoSmithKline/ Perriello
      Marketing Manager  
James Hall $4,300 C’ville Worldstrides/CEO Goode
Peter Hallock $3,000 Keswick The Garden Spot/ Perriello, Warner
      Business Owner  
Molly Hardie $4,600 C’ville Self employed/Homemaker Perriello
Robert Hardie $7,900 C’ville Level One Partners, LLC/ Perriello, Clinton, Warner
      Managing Director  
Margaret Hart $2,300 North None/Homemaker Clinton
    Garden    
Cindy Hewitt $3,800 C’ville None/Homemaker Warner, Goode
Richard Hewitt $11,300 C’ville Self employed/ Goode, Warner
      Real Estate Developer  
Scott Hildebrand $4,350 Keswick Self employed/CEO Obama
Robert Hobart $6,900 C’ville None/Retired Warner, Dodd
Laura Horn $2,300 C’ville None/Online Executive Perriello
Jane Humiston $4,400 Keswick None/Homemaker Obama, Dodd
Raymond Humiston $2,300 Keswick Prologue Capital/Finane McCain
Anthony Ignaczak $4,600 C’ville Quad-C Management Inc./ Giuliani, Obama
      Investment Banker  
Lara Ignaczak $4,600 C’ville UNCM/Unlisted Giuliani, Obama
Vincent Isner $3,675 C’ville Self employed/ Perriello
      Photographer/  
      Video Producer  
Thomas Jones $4,600 Earlysville New Venture Directions/ Obama, Warner
      Consultant  
Harold Jordan $6,900 Greenwood None/Retired Obama, Warner
Mary Jordan $4,600 Greenwood None/Retired Obama
Neal Kassell $4,600 C’ville UVA/Physician McCain, Warner
William Kehoe $4,600 C’ville UVA/Educator Warner
Catherine Anne Kellett $4,650 C’ville Legal Aid Justice Center/ Obama, Perriello
      Director of Grants  
      and Communications  
Gary Wheeler Kendall $8,610 Free Union Michie, Hamlett, Lowry/ Obama, Clinton,
      Attorney Perriello, Edwards
Kathleen Kerber $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker McCain
Ronald Kerber $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Investor McCain
Michael Klarman $6,055 C’ville UVA law school/ Perriello, Obama
      Law Professor  
Rachael Emily Klarman $2,800 C’ville UVA/Student Perriello
Patricia Kluge $2,300 C’ville Kluge Estate Winery Clinton
      & Vineyard/Vintner  
Wanda Kochhar $2,300 C’ville Outcomes, Inc./Chairman Clinton
Elizabeth Kutchai $4,570 C’ville None/Retired Obama
Howard Kutchai $3,800 C’ville UVA/Professor Obama
Ludwig Kuttner $2,300 Keene H.I.L./Investor Obama
Michael La Duc $6,900 C’ville Center for Sustainable McCain
      Solutions/Consultant  
Lisa Landsverk $2,800 C’ville None/None Perriello
Barbara Hough Lee $4,600 C’ville None/Retired Obama
Robert E. Lee Jr. $4,600 C’ville None/Retired Obama
White Lee $2,300 C’ville UVA/Physician McCain
Jocelyn Leitao $3,300 C’ville None/None Obama
Alana Levinson $2,300 C’ville None/Student Obama
Audrey Lewis $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Warner
Clifford Lewis $4,300 Keswick Currenex/CEO McCain
Hunder Lewis $2,300 Crozet Cambridge Associates/ Giuliani
      Finance  
John Lewis IV $2,300 C’ville Gardner Lewis Asset Warner
      Management/President  
Russell Linden $3,724 C’ville Self employed/Consultant Perriello, Obama
Catherine Lipsey $2,300 C’ville UVA Darden School Huckabee
      Foundation/Director of  
      Online Marketing  
Michael Lipsey $2,300 C’ville None/Student Huckabee
George W. Logan $6,900 Earlysville Self employed/ Warner, Obama
      Private Investor  
George Willis Logan Jr. $5,600 C’ville Virginia Wine of the Month Obama
      Club/President–Retailer  
Helen H. Logan $9,200 Earlysville UVA Medical Center/ Warner, Obama, Perriello
      Music Therapist  
Mark Logan $4,600 C’ville None/Retired Obama
Charles Lunsford III $4,600 North Virginia Candle Company/ Warner
    Garden President  
Fleming Lunsford $4,600 North Self employed/ Warner
    Garden Photographer  
Margaret MacAvoy $3,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama
Thomas MacAvoy $3,800 C’ville None/Retired Obama, Clinton
Whitney Marsh $2,300 C’ville None/Student Edwards
Cynthia Martin $2,992 C’ville Community Mediation Obama
      Center of Charlottesville/  
      Executive Director  
David Matthews $2,300 C’ville DMB, Inc./Musician Obama
Sheila McMillen $2,300 C’ville Virginia Quarterly Review/ Clinton
      Circulation Manager  
C. Wilson McNeely III $8,600 C’ville Self employed/Investor Warner, McCain, Goode
Carter McNeely $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker McCain
Eugene Meyung $4,600 C’ville Self employed/ Clinton, McCain
      Management Consultant  
B Wistar Morris $3,100 C’ville Signature Financial Perriello, Obama
      Management, Inc./Lawyer  
William Moses $4,600 C’ville Kluge Estate Winery Clinton
      & Vineyard/Businessman  
Bruce R. Murray $13,800 Keene Greenbriar Square Obama, Warner, Perriello
      Properties/Property  
      Manager  
James B. Murray Jr. $11,200 Keene Self employed/Investor Obama, Warner, Clinton
James Murray Sr. $2,800 C’ville Court Square Ventures/ Perriello
      Managing Partner  
Matthew Brundred        
Murray $3,300 C’ville Richmond and Fishburne/ Perriello, Obama
      Attorney  
Jessica Nagle $4,600 White Hall SNL Financial/ Obama, Warner
      Director of Special Projects  
Reid Nagle $4,600 Crozet SNL Financial/Chairman Obama
      & Founder  
Robert Niehaus $2,300 Earlysville None/Retired Romney
Dennis Odinov $2,300 Keswick None/Retired McCain
Derek Oppen $2,300 C’ville None/Retired McCain
Lewis Payne $3,300 C’ville McGuire Woods Warner
      Consulting/President  
Susan Payne $6,813 C’ville Payne and Ross Warner, Clinton, Obama
      Media/Owner  
Jan Paynter $6,900 C’ville Self employed/Writer Obama, Perriello
L. Paige Perriello $4,600 Ivy Boston Children’s Perriello
      Hospital/Pediatrician  
Linda Perriello $4,600 Ivy Self employed/ Perriello
      Financial Advisor  
Maureen Perriello $4,600 C’ville None/None Perriello
Vito Perriello $4,600 Ivy Pediatric Associates/ Perriello
      Physician  
Vito A. Perriello $4,600 C’ville St. Anne’s Belfield School/ Perriello
      Administrator  
Lucia Phinney $8,900 Batesville UVA/Professor Perriello, Obama, Warner
William Quandt $4,300 C’ville UVA/Professor Obama, Warner
Judith Trumbly        
Rasmussen $8,305 Ivy None/Homemaker Obama, Perriello, Warner
Bruce Reynolds $4,567 C’ville UVA/Professor Obama
Yoke San Reynolds $2,300 C’ville UVA/Chief Financial Officer Obama
Laura Robertson $2,300 C’ville Not listed/Not listed Clinton
Michael Roddy $2,300 C’ville None/Student Clinton
John Rosenblum $4,300 Crozet None/Retired Obama
Charles Rotgin $6,300 C’ville Great Eastern Management McCain, Goode,
      Corp./Business Executive Warner, Huckabee
Andrew Rotherham $5,619 Earlysville Education Sector/ Obama, Clinton, Perriello
      Policy Analyst  
Kevin Ryan $2,300 C’ville Michie, Hamlett, Lowry/ Edwards
      Attorney  
Robert Sack $2,300 C’ville None/Retired Obama
Richard Schragger $4,300 C’ville UVA/Law Professor Obama
Frederic Scott Jr. $6,600 North Bundoran Farms/Owner Warner, Goode
    Garden    
Elizabeth        
Sidamon-Eristoff $4,600 Crozet Self employed/Artist Giuliani, Obama
Terence Sieg $4,600 C’ville JW Sieg and Co, Inc./ Perriello
      President  
Richard Sisson $2,550 C’ville Communication Arts Guild/ Perriello
      Graphic Artist  
Jane Ashley Skinner $7,900 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama, Clinton, Warner
Peter Skinner $7,900 C’ville Self employed/Artist Obama, Clinton, Warner
Hunter Smith $2,500 C’ville None/Homemaker McCain
Sonjia Smith $13,800 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama, Warner, Perriello
John Lloyd Snook III $2,620 C’ville Snook & Haughey, PC/ Perriello
      Attorney  
Jan Stalfort $2,300 C’ville None/Homemaker Perriello
John II Stalfort $2,300 C’ville Cabell Bankers Insurance/ Perriello
      Executive Vice President  
Lauren Stephens $2,300 C’ville None/Student Clinton
Carol Stevenson $2,300 C’ville None/Retired Goode
William Stevenson $2,550 C’ville None/Retired Goode
William Sukovich $3,271 C’ville Spinal Surgery Associates, Paul
      PLC/Orthopaedic Surgeon  
Michael Sylvester $2,300 Keswick GE Fanire/President/CEO Giuliani
Kristin Szakos $3,413 C’ville Children, Youth & Family Obama
      Services/Writer  
William Tetzeli $4,400 C’ville None/None Obama
W. McIlwaine        
Thompson Jr. $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Attorney Perriello
George McNeir Tilman $2,500 C’ville Martha Jefferson Hospital/ Perriello
      Board of Directors  
Boyd Tinsley $6,900 North Dave Matthews Band/ Obama, Edwards
    Garden Musician  
Emily Tinsley $2,300 C’ville Self employed/RN Edwards
Sarah Tremaine $2,300 Crozet Self employed/Counselor Obama
Alice Turner $2,300 C’ville None/Retired Obama
Emily Umberger $2,500 Crozet People Places/Educator Obama
Anne Vanderwarker $3,300 Keswick Self employed/ Clinton, Obama
      Interior Designer  
Tony Vanderwarker $2,300 Keswick Self employed/Writer Clinton
Melinda Vaughan $6,784 C’ville None/Homemaker Obama
Patrick Vaughan $6,900 C’ville Quantitative Investment Obama, Perriello
      Management, LL/CFO  
Harry Wellons $6,900 Earlysville UVA/Semi-Retired McCain, Goode
Phil Wendel $6,600 C’ville Self employed/ Goode, Giuliani
      Business Owner  
Sheila Weschler $6,900 C’ville None/Homemaker Perriello, McCain
R. Ted Weschler $13,800 C’ville Peninsula Capital Advisors, LLC/ McCain, Perriello,
      Managing Director Clinton, Warner
Olin West $2,300 Free Union None/Retired McCain
Cecile Wheeler $4,600 Keswick Anheuser Busch Company/ McCain
      Distributor  
Kenneth Wheeler $2,300 Keswick John D. Eiland/ McCain
      Ark District/President  
Lee White $2,300 C’ville UVA/Physician McCain
John Wickens $4,300 Keswick Self employed/Consultant Obama
Judy Wickens $4,200 Keswick None/None Obama
Roberta Williamson $11,500 C’ville None/Ice Rink Owner Obama, Perriello, Warner
Doris Wilsdorf $4,600 C’ville Hypercon/Owner Goode
John Knox Wilson Jr. $2,300 C’ville Self employed/Medical Obama
      Software Developer  
Mary Wilson $2,300 C’ville Self employed/ Obama
      Office Manager  
Jaffray Woodriff $2,450 C’ville QIM/Investment Manager Perriello, Obama
Stanley Woodward $8,600 C’ville Self employed/Artist Obama, Perriello
Svaha Woodward $2,300 C’ville Jefferson Vineyards/Owner Perriello
George Yin $2,300 C’ville UVA School of Law/ Obama
      Law Professor  
Linda Zecher $4,600 Keswick Microsoft/Vice President Clinton, Perriello

 

A note about our analysis:

Using publicly available election finance data from the presidential, senatorial, and congressional races, we analyzed the “big givers” in the Charlottesville area—those who gave at the legal limit of $2,300. In cases where a donor’s total is more than $2,300, donations were made to candidates in multiple races, to multiple candidates in the same race, or during the primary phase and again in the general election. The total of the gifts we analyzed is just over $1 million.

Only gifts through October 15, 2008, were included in the analysis. Some small donations made by “big givers” may not have been captured.

For our chart, we divided the donors into eight “types” based on vocation or occupation. Married donors without an identifiable profession were put in the same category as their spouses who had listed a profession.