John D. Hutchinson joined the staff of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation in 2001 where his responsibilities include working with battlefield landowners and assisting partner groups in planning cooperative conservation and preservation programs. The Battlefields Foundation, based in New Market, works to preserve Civil War battlefields in the eight-county Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, a National Heritage Area, reaching from northern Clarke and Frederick counties south to Augusta and Highland.

Hutchinson received a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia with a Certificate in Historic Preservation in 2000. His dissertation research was on PDR programs. He is a 1984 honors graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with majors in American History and American Literature. He graduated from R. E. Lee High School in Staunton and attended Mary Baldwin College and Saint John’s College in Oxford, England.

Before coming to the Battlefields Foundation, Hutchinson a Staunton native, worked with numerous regional and statewide non-profit organizations and corporations in Virginia. He produced a special report for Rockbridge County looking at ways to fund a local PDR program. He was Director of Strategic Planning and Development for the Western Virginia Land Trust, a regional group that serves southwest Virginia, and a consultant to the Preservation Alliance of Virginia, the state’s advocacy and information network for historic preservation. He was Special Projects Coordinator for the Valley Conservation Council and oversaw their McDowell Battlefield\Staunton and Parkersburg Pike Project. Contact: jhutch@shentel.net; 540-740-4545

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