Woodfin Ligon

Woodfin Ligon (Grad ’70) worked for General Electric’s Global Research Center in Schenectady, New York for 33 years. He has more than 40 peer reviewed scientific papers, including a requested review paper on mass spectrometry for the journal Science. He also has 14 U.S. patents. He retired in 2007 to his homeplace near Farmville, Virginia. He is married to Ann Crumrine Ligon, with whom he has two children. His son, Tom, who graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT, is a senior manager at X-energy. His daughter, Claire Ligon (Educ ’12), graduated from the University of Richmond and UVA, and is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. The Ligons have two grandchildren.