GIFT TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN TO BECOME LEADERS
	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 6 -- Local businesswoman Jill T.
Rinehart has pledged $100,000 to the University of Virginia to
promote women's leadership roles, U.Va. President John T. Casteen
III announced today.
	Rinehart has pledged $50,000 during the course of the
University's $750-million capital campaign and an additional $50,000
bequest to support the Jill T. Rinehart Women and Leadership
Program.  The gift will create a series of lectures and seminars
through the WomenÕs Center that will examine leadership models for
women in business, politics, academe and other professions.  
	A graduate of the U.Va. College of Arts and Sciences in 1980
at the age of 59, Rinehart was the first woman elected to
Charlottesville City Council, serving from 1972 to 1976.
	In 1990 Rinehart founded and chaired the development board
of the University's Women's Center.  She served as board chair until
1992 and remains an active member, serving as the center's major
gifts volunteer during the campaign.  In recognition of Rinehart's
leadership, the Women's Center library is named for her.  
	Her husband, William A. Rinehart, is the grandson of Hollis
Rinehart, a member of U.Va.'s Board of Visitors from the early 1920s
to 1943.  Furniture given by William Rinehart and his siblings
decorates Pavilion V.  The pieces were in the Rineharts' late
parents' home, Cherry Hill.
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October 6, 1995