Prince William County Public Schools

PWCS named John Wallingford Chief Financial Officer in February 2019. Before his appointment, Wallingford served for 11 years as director of financial services for the School Division. During his time in PWCS, the School Division implemented its first Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).

Wallingford has nearly 30 years of experience in local government finance, including stints in both schools and city government in Virginia. Before Prince William, he worked at the Bureau of Business Research at the College of William and Mary, where his duties included econometric forecasting and teaching in both the graduate and undergraduate schools of business. Wallingford is a past member of the Executive Board of the Virginia Government Finance Officers Association and led the Standards Setting and Legislative Committee and the Associate Member Committee.

He is a member of the Virginia Association of School Business Officials (VASBO), the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO), the Virginia Government Finance Officers Association (VGFOA), the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), and was a member of the GFOA Special Review Committee for eight years.

Wallingford received his Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at The College of William and Mary.