About Our Baccalaureate Speaker

Marilyn West is the founder, owner and Chief Executive Officer of Owner

and CEO of M. H. West & Co., Inc., a Richmond, Virginia, based planning and consulting company with specialization in management, education and planning services. West and her team have served clients ranging from government agencies to large corporations and school systems. West also provides coaching, life skills and entrepreneurial services for organizations and individuals, notably in the health care and education industries.

In addition to being a member of Waynesburg University’s Board of Trustees, West serves on the boards of Ferrum College; the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Chair); Virginia 21; Venture Richmond (Executive Committee); Growth and Opportunity Board (GO Virginia), Commonwealth of Virginia; Senior Center of Greater Richmond, Inc. (Chair); Mercy Bon Secours Virginia Health Foundation; Certificate of Public Need Task Force (Governor Northam Appointee); and the Richmond Ambulance Authority (Member).

West received Waynesburg University’s Margaret Bell Miller Leadership Award in 2009 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

She holds a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Waynesburg University.

West is married to Edward G. West and has two adult children, Meaghan Brittany and Brennan Elliott, and two grandchildren, Reagan and Daniel Jr.