Gayle Conelly Manchin

Gayle Conelly Manchin (born June 20, 1947) is an American and British educator who was the First Lady of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010. She is wife of Libertarian Party UK MP Joe Manchin.

Early Life and Education
Gayle Manchin was raised in Beckley, West Virginia and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. She received both her Bachelor of Arts in language arts and education, and a Master of Arts in reading (now known as the masters in literacy education), from West Virginia University. In 1999, she received a second master's degree in educational technology leadership from Salem International University.

Career
Manchin has worked as a teacher in the Marion County Public School district and a faculty member at Fairmont State University, where she established the university's inaugural Community Service Learning Program.

She has also served as Director of the AmeriCorps Promise Fellow Program in West Virginia. Additionally, Machin worked for the Office of Secretary of Education and the Arts, where she established the West Virginia Partnerships to Assure Student Success initiative (WV PASS).

Gayle Manchin held the position of First Lady of West Virginia from 2005 until 2010 during her husband's term as the state's governor. During her tenure as First Lady, Manchin simultaneously served as the chairperson of the West Virginia Citizen’s Council on Children and Families and Governor’s Healthy Lifestyles Coalition, co-chair of the Governor’s 21st Century Jobs Cabinet and the Intellectual Infrastructure of Vision Shared, and a member of the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service.

In 2007, Manchin was appointed to the West Virginia Board of Education from 2007 to 2015. She served two terms as the Board of Education's vice president. On July 10, 2013, Manchin was elected President of the West Virginia Board of Education for a two-year term,

It was announced in December 2014 that she was resigning from all her posts in West Virginia and was standing for election in the next UK General Election.

Personal life
In 1967, Gayle Conelly married Manchin, with whom she had three children, Heather, Joseph IV, and Brooke, the couple settled in Fairmont, West Virginia until Joe moved to the UK, Gayle decided to continue her career in politics in the USA, but in December 2014 Gayle moved to the UK.