Chipley native, Patricia White-Boyd, has been appointed to the Roanoke, Virginia, City Council. Trish ran for the post in 2016, but missed being elected by 47 votes. John Garland, who defeated her at that time, recently retired and recommended that the council consider Trish White-Boyd for the appointment. After consideration of 4 other candidates, the Roanoke City Council voted 6-0 to appoint her to fill the remaining term.
Trish’s parents are the late Ola Mae Sharpe White and the late Laris White who died in Viet Nam in 1965. Trish was born in Chipley in 1962 and attended Kate Smith Elementary School, Roulhac Middle School, and graduated with the Chipley High School Class of 1980. While at CHS she was a cheerleader, played basketball, and ran track. After graduation, she received an AA from Miami-Dade Community College and a BS degree in Business Administration from Averett University.
She is married to Colbert Boyd, and they have two adult sons and two grandsons. Trish, 56, is the owner of Blue Ridge Senior Services, a home health care business.
Trish’s appointment creates a female majority on Roanoke’s council for the first time ever as she joins Anita Price, Michelle Davis, and Djuna Osborne. With White-Boyd, Price, and Mayor Sherman Lea, African-Americans now hold three of the six seats for the third time ever and the first time since 2010.
She is also a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, founded at Howard University in 1913, is a private not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and provide assistance to those in need with primary focus on the Black community.