Nancy Richards-Akers

Nancy Linda Richards was born in 16 January 1954, the oldest of three children of a New England physician and his wife. She grew up in suburban Scarsdale, New York. In 1971, she graduated at Mount Vernon College. In her early career, she wrote speeches for a North Carolina congressman, and later worked at a firm that produced political ads. In 1976, Nancy met Jeremy Ray Akers, while both were staffers on Capitol Hill. He was a Vietnam War hero, …