Artistic Associate and School of Richmond Ballet Director
Judy Jacob is from Detroit, where she studied ballet with Evelyn Smith. She trained in London, England with Anne Heaton, John Field and Valerie Taylor, and at Butler University and Indiana University with George Verdak, William Glenn, Peggy Dorsey, Anton Dolin and Kenneth Melville. Ms. Jacob performed with the Butler Ballet and Indiana Ballet Theatre, and was a principal dancer with Memphis Ballet for seven years. She created roles in ballets by choreographers Ron Cunningham, Jill Eathorne Bahr, Norbert Vesak, Robert Kelley and Philip Jerry. She was associate artistic director of Fort Wayne Ballet prior to joining Richmond Ballet in 1995. Ms. Jacob was appointed assistant ballet master in 1996, and has been School of Richmond Ballet director since 1998.

Full-time Faculty
Igor Antonov, Jasmine Grace, Anne Sidney Hetherington, Arnott Mader, Susan Israel Massey, Tara Penick, and Julie Job Smithson

Part-time Faculty
Starr Foster, Kaye Weinstein Gary, Willie Hinton, Rebecca Hodal, Katherine Lynch, John Massey, Patricia Mochary, Emily Poff, Kathie Reinoehl, Melanie Richards, Sarah Ruppel, Katherine Smothers, and Jerome Weiss

Music Supervisor
Katherine Bishop

Accompanists
Beth Almore, Katherine Bishop, Blanton Bradley, Virginia Campbell, Laura Candler-White, Bentley Cobb, Darryl Emerson, Donna Fitzgerald, Matt Mangialetti, John Murdock, Ken Myers, Matt Noah, Kathie Reinoehl, Rachel Shimkus, Jim Smithson, and Tricia Vesely

School Administrator: Susan Collet

Business Manager: Kim Chiarchiaro

Administrative Assistant: Beth Martorell

Education Administrative Assistant: Rebecca Weger