Mary Sue Terry - Life After Candidacy

Life After Candidacy

Following her defeat, Terry was a visiting professor at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies. She served on the Board of Trustees at the University of Richmond from 1983-91.

In 2007, Terry was consulting for Microsoft and nearby Ferrum College while living on her family farm in Patrick County, Virginia. Since 1978, she has been a partner in Terry & Rogers, and a partner in the B.H. Cooper Farm, Inc., both in Stuart.

In 2008, with Susan Platt and others, she formed "The Farm Team", a PAC to "help Democratic women seek elected office." (Leslie Byrne is a Northern Virginia chairman.) In the last quarter of 2008 they raised $6696 and contributed $4000, including $1000 to Sharon Bulova's 2009 election campaign for Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Fairfax County, Virginia. They solicited donations through the ActBlue web site in 2009. Miss Terry was featured speaker at a breakfast fundraiser planned in Richmond 7 February 2009, in connection with Jefferson-Jackson Day. That event was connected to a reception at the Governor's mansion, later canceled because Virginia law prohibits political fundraising by state officials while the Virginia General Assembly is in session. Democratic party officials argued the event did not violate that ban, because money had been collected before the session.