Board & Staff
Susan Magill
Managing Director, Philanthropic Services and Government Relations
Susan A. Magill manages Pew’s Philanthropic Services and Government Relations Department. She oversees the institution’s relationships with other foundations, corporations and individual philanthropists for the purpose of building charitable partnerships with Pew’s work. In addition, she ensures that Pew’s wide range of nonpartisan policy work is effectively and accurately communicated to policy makers and counsels the institution on nonprofit sector issues being considered at the state and federal levels that could impact Pew’s work.
Prior to joining Pew in 2006, Ms. Magill served as the chief of staff for United States Senator John Warner (R-VA) for 20 years. In 1996, she served as executive director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Previously, she headed the Washington office of Virginia Governor John Dalton and worked for former Congressman Caldwell Butler.
Named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the city’s most powerful women, Ms. Magill was twice appointed by Virginia governors to the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary, her alma mater. Ms. Magill was the second woman elected to chair the college’s governing body. She was appointed to the State Council on Higher Education in 2006, and also continues to serve on the advisory board of Mount Vernon. In 2008, Ms. Magill received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Excellence in Virginia Government Awards presented by the Virginia Commonwealth University.
