James Franklin Hope

Background

Hope, James Franklin was born on August 2, 1917 in Toledo. Son of George Thomas and Alice Mae (Martin) Hope.

Education

Bachelor of Civil Engineering magna cum laude, University Toledo, Ohio, 1939.

Career

Field engineer, assistant superintendent, Art Metal Construction Company, Jamestown, New York, 1939-1940; assistant to chief engineer, Doyle and Russel and Wise Construction Company, Richmond, Virginia, 1940-1941; executive engineer, Doyle and Russell, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941-1943; president, Reid & Hope, Inc. Contractors & Engineers, Suffolk, Virginia, 1946-1983. Board directors Old Dominion Investors Trust, Inc., since 1952, president since 1965.

Construction engineering for commercial, industrial and condominium projects, since 1984.

Achievements

• Registered professional engineer, Ohio, Virginia. Registered professional surveyor, Ohio.

Membership

Member Suffolk City Council, 1963-1978, 90-94. Vice mayor City of Suffolk, 1965, mayor, 1966-1978, 90-92. Executive committee, board directors Virginia Municipal League, 1966-1978.

Member Building Codes Board of Adjustments and Appeals, 1963-1990, chairman 1985-1990. Member Affordable Housing Committee, Southeast Virginia Planning District Commission, 1963-1978, chair 1967-1968, vice chair 1965-1966, Hampton Roads Area Committee, 1966-1982, chair 1978-1982, Southeast Virginia Water Authority, 1970-1978, vice chair 1975, chair 1976, Jail Study Committee. Chairman Suffolk 1980 Census Committee, Southeastern Tidewater Manpower Authority, 1973-1978.

Trustee, chairman commission finance, past chairman Oxford Methodist Church. Board directors Old Dominion council Boy Scouts American, and others. Lieutenant United States Navy, 1943-1946, PTO. Member National Society of Professional Engineers, Society of America Military Engineers, Associated General Contractors of America (board directors Virginia branch, president Virginia branch 1959, Construction Man of Year award), Virginia Society Professional Engineers (board directors Tidewater chapter 1960-1963), Eastern Virginia Association Contractors, State Registration Board for Contractors (past. chairman, past vice chairman), Virginia State Chamber of C., Suffolk-Nansemond C. of Chamber (board directors 1956-1957), Lions (president, board directors 1961-1962, Melvin Jones fellow 1997).

Connections

Married Virginia Lee Mountjoy, June 10, 1944. Children: James F. Junior, Virginia Lee BeVille.

Father:

George Thomas Hope

Mother:

Alice Mae (Martin) Hope

Spouse:

Virginia Lee Mountjoy

child:

James F. Junior Hope

child:

Virginia Lee BeVille Hope