Virginia Chang Kiraly was elected to the SDRMA Board of Directors on January 1, 2026. She earned her B.A. in Government with a minor in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Public Administration with a concentration in public policy from the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy.   

Virginia’s public service spans two decades.  She has served as an elected commissioner on the San Mateo County Harbor Board of Commissioners since 2015 and as an elected director on the Menlo Park Fire Protection District Board of Directors since 2011.  She also serves on the San Mateo LAFCO Commission and on the board of the California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions (CALAFCO) as the Special Districts Director representing 15 counties in the Coastal Region.   

In 2007, she was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Commission for Economic Development and served seven years on the commission under three California Lieutenant Governors.  She served on the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury for two years from 2007-2009 and as Foreperson from 2008-2009.  She was a member of the San Mateo County Community College District’s Measure G Parcel Tax Oversight Committee.  In 2015, Virginia was named by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as a “Woman of Influence.”  She has been a guest lecturer on “Women & Management” at Notre Dame de Namur University. 

Professionally, Virginia has fifteen years of experience in corporate financial analysis, planning, and investments.  She is a former Senior Director of the Nasdaq Stock Market and has worked at some of the country's leading financial institutions.   

She is a member of the Peninsula Volunteers and a sustainer of the Junior League of Palo Alto*Mid-Peninsula.  She is the president of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority’s San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula Alumnae Association, and volunteers at the Discovery Shop in Menlo Park benefiting the American Cancer Society.  She has served on numerous boards, such as the California State Parks Foundation, the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, and The Tech Museum of Innovation.   

A daughter of Chinese immigrants, Virginia was born and raised in Austin, Texas.  She is a former concert pianist and is a 40-year member of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.  For fun, she likes to knit, stitch, run, read, and write.  Virginia and her husband live in unincorporated West Menlo Park and are the proud parents of two sons and an adopted family dog.