About Linda Baker

Linda Baker joined the Food Bank in July 2017, bringing extensive experience in nonprofit and for-profit financial management.

After several years in public accounting with national and regional firms, Linda spent time as the controller of a national distributor of early childhood educational materials and equipment. From there, she began a 23+ year career as the business and financial officer at three different independent boarding and day schools in the Southeast, where she was intimately involved with, among other things, technology, gift accounting, and endowment investment and management.

Her experience as a leader in independent schools led to her 2008 peer selection to serve a six-year term on the Board of MISBO, which stands for Mid-South Independent Schools Business Officers. MISBO is a regional association of independent school operations leaders from 18 states that provides professional development and operational support through its purchasing consortium.

Ms. Baker is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of CPA’s with a BBA and an MBA from the University of Georgia. She and her husband and daughter reside in Staunton, Virginia.