Virginia C. Lacy

Virginia C.
Lacy has served as a Director of CryoLife since August 1997.
Ms. Lacy received her B.A.
degree from Northwestern University in 1963.
Ms. Lacy is the Administrator of The Jeannette & John Cruikshank Memorial Foundation, which provides housing assistance to those in need throughout the greater Chicago area.
Since 1997, Ms. Lacy has served as President, and since 1974 has served as Secretary-Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, of Precision Devices Corporation, a distributor of medical devices.
She was one of the founders of that company and serves as the Chairman of its Board of Directors.
As an elected member of the Board of Education of District 203 of the State of Illinois for 12 years, she served on its budget committee, which was responsible for planning and reviewing the spending of $100 million in public funds each year in a school district having 2,500 employees.
Ms. Lacy also provided leadership in state education by serving on committees that analyzed state funding for education.