Alyson Price

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Alyson Price
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19th President of the Shenandoahan Commonwealth
In office
January 16, 2021 – January 16, 2025
Vice PresidentVance Reacher
Preceded byMaxwell Halleran
Governor of Blue Ridge
In office
January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2016
DeputyVance Reacher
Preceded byRose Newell
Succeeded byJames Jenkins
Representative in the House of Delegates for the State of Blue Ridge
In office
January 1, 2002 – December 31, 2008
Preceded byMarcus Howell
Succeeded byShannon Cassedy
Mayor of Parkersburg
In office
January 1, 1992 – December 31, 2000
Preceded byRobert Seger
Succeeded byWilliam Steed
Personal details
Born
Alyson Walker Nelson

(1962-04-18) 18 April 1962 (age 62)
Summersville, Cumberland
Spouse
Chad Price (m. 1995)
Children
  • Brandon Price (February 2001 (age 23)
  • Hannah Price (July 2008 (age 15)
Parents
  • Stirling Nelson (October 1934 (age 89)
  • Malandra Walker Nelson (June 1944 (age 79)
EducationBlue Ridge State University
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Alyson Walker Price (née Nelson) is the 19th President of the Shenandoahan Commonwealth, and will begin her second term in office on January 16, 2021. She previously served as the governor of the State of Blue Ridge, and a representative to the House of Delegates for the same state from 2002 to 2008. Prior to this, she began her political career as the Mayor of Parkersburg.

Early life

Born Alyson Walker Nelson in 1962, she was the first and only daughter of Stirling and Malandra Nelson. Stirling Nelson was a well known and popular figure in Shenandoahan political and social circles, and was serving as a representative to the House of Delegates for his home state of Blue Ridge. Malandra Nelson (née Hall) was the daughter of Randolph Hall, owner of Majestic Oil and Gas.

Alyson was given the middle name Walker to observe a tradition carried on by the Hall family since the late 1700's. The first female born into a branch of the Hall family generally receive the name Walker, paying homage to past generations of Hall females. As the first born daughter of Stirling and Malandra Nelson, the couple chose to honor the tradition and bestow the middle name upon their child. In 2012, the Price's carried on this tradition by bestowing the name upon their first born daughter, Hannah Walker Price.

Political career

Personal life

Price met her husband, Chad Price, in 1990 after moving from Davidsburg to Parkersburg following completing her education at Blue Ridge State University. The two were dating when she successfully campaigned for and was elected Mayor of Blue Ridge in 1992, and the couple married in 1995. Currently, her husband is the Chief Financial Officer of Price Industries, a company his family started in the late 1800's

The couple have two children, Brandon Price and Hannah Walker Price. Brandon Price is currently serving as a Senior Lieutenant in the Shenandoahan Army National Guard while Hannah Price in her sophomore year at Ross Byrd Academy in St Albans.