Ms. Hovey is a Vice President of Wealth Management and a Financial Planning Specialist with Smith Barney. Her work is focused on women of means and intergenerational family clients. Her first career was in retail management, where she spent 15 years as an entrepreneur/owner of stores and as a retail fashion management consultant.

            A life long commitment to the non-profit sector, beginning with the Junior League, has been an important parallel career. Ms. Hovey has held positions of leadership in the Junior League, the Capitol Children’s Museum in Washington D.C., the Children’s Defense Fund, and the Washington Ballet. She served as Chairman of the Board of Georgians for Children. Ms. Hovey has been a trustee of the Alliance Theater in Atlanta for over a decade and is the Chair of the Community Foundation of West Georgia.

            She was educated at Skidmore College, Dartmouth College, and the George Washington University School of Management. Ms. Hovey has two daughters: Elisabeth, a social worker in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Hillary, an actor and writer in Atlanta.