Jane-Ashley Skinner worked in development at the University of Virginia for six years in the 1990s, including four with the Virginia Student Aid Foundation, which is now known as the Virginia Athletics Foundation. Before that, she served as director of annual giving for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association during the period in which head football coach Bobby Ross built a championship program in Atlanta. Skinner, who grew up in Charlottesville, graduated from UVA in 1985. She and her husband, Peter Skinner, lease a suite at Scott Stadium and have given substantial amounts to the Master Plan and for facility improvements in football, basketball and baseball.