J. Violet Gannon, former executive director of Manchester Community Library, has been named founding director of institutional advancement at Greenway Institute in Hartford, Vermont. A nonprofit executive, Gannon has spent her career advancing educational and health care initiatives.
Prior to her role in Manchester, Gannon served as patient experience manager at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, where she was responsible for patient relations across the institution, ensuring high-quality patient care. Gannon previously worked closely with donors, alumni and students at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she directed the Career Development Center.
Prior to moving back to her native New England, and during her tenure at the University of Chicago as assistant dean and director of the health professions program, Gannon re-envisioned a preprofessional program that provided students and alumni with the resources to develop a portfolio of skills and competencies required for graduate study in health and medicine. Securing funding from a Trustee donor, Gannon also founded and directed a summer fellowship program in which she taught an interdisciplinary summer seminar on health care.
Gannon graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude, and earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago.