Alexis Ehrhardt is the Executive Director for State Government Relations and Special Assistant to the President at the University of Virginia. Previously, she served as President & CEO of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce. She was the founding Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Career Competitiveness at Averett University.
Raised in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Rockville, MD, Alexis has lived in the Dan River Region since 2000, now splitting her time between Danville and Richmond. She graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Spanish, holds a Master’s degree in Higher Education from the University of Virginia, and a doctorate in Leadership Studies from the University of Lynchburg (formerly Lynchburg College).
Alexis currently serves on the boards of Danville Regional Foundation, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. From 2018-2022 she served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission.
