Carolyn T. Rye

Carolyn Rye was elected to the School Board in November 2014. She began her professional career in the business sector, serving a decade as corporate trainer and group insurance management consultant for Prudential Insurance. The proud daughter of two career high school teachers, Rye ultimately turned to her education roots as a longtime private mathematics tutor and secondary school classroom teacher in local schools. She was also employed by Virginia Beach City Public Schools from 2000-2014 as an intermittent substitute teacher. Rye served on the PTA Boards of Lynnhaven Middle, Kingston Elementary, Kemps Landing Magnet and Ocean Lakes High School, and is a two-time PTA president at both the elementary and high school levels. She is a recipient of the PTA Distinguished Service Award. Rye is an active member of the community, serving two recent terms on both her St. Nicholas Catholic Church Pastoral Council, and William & Mary’s regional alumni chapter board. She is founder and inaugural president of William and Mary’s Northern New Jersey Alumni Chapter, and has served the past decade as an advisor to her campus sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. As a national Fight Colorectal Cancer advocate, she and her daughter, an early age onset colon cancer survivor, collectively have lobbied Congress, engage in community-based education and awareness, and promote annual fund-raising. Mrs. Rye has also served in a fundraising capacity for her college, and past church capital campaign. She graduated from the College of William and Mary as a Government major, with concentrations in history and mathematics. She holds an MBA degree from Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey. Her husband Kenneth is retired, and served parallel legal careers as Counsel, United States Navy, Military Sealift Command, and Judge Advocate, Unites States Army. She and Ken are the proud parents of two VBCPS graduates.