In Memoriam: 1990s

Notices sorted by graduation date

Amy Estes McCullough (Col ’96 CM) of Charlottesville died April 24, 2026. She was an Echols Scholar who gave back to her community through volunteering with Madison House. After graduating, she studied law at Washington and Lee University. A respected attorney, she served as a trusts and estates lawyer and as a guardian ad litem in the Fredericksburg area. She was a past president of the Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and was once recognized as its lawyer of the year. She served on the board of the Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region. She was also extensively involved in many other charitable groups in the Fredericksburg area, including the Fredericksburg Area Service League and the Washington Heritage Museums. Survivors include her husband, Stephen, and two sons.

Margaret Ashley “Meg” Saunders (Col ’97 CM) of Richmond, Kentucky, died April 27, 2026. At UVA, she double-majored in music and psychology and played in the Charlottesville Symphony. She earned a Master of Music in violin performance and a Master of Arts in Teaching in music education from Eastern Kentucky University. She built her career in and around Lexington, Kentucky, as a longtime member of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra and as a beloved private violin teacher, touching the lives of hundreds of students, from young children to those preparing for their master’s recitals. She also taught at Centre College, Eastern Kentucky University and Transylvania University. She enjoyed gardening and celebrating birthdays and half-birthdays. She loved her cat and all things pink. Survivors include her father, Wayne Saunders (Engr ’71 CM); her mother; and her brother.

Jason Neil Rudolph (Engr ’99 CM) of Durham, North Carolina, died May 21, 2026. He earned a computer science degree at UVA, where he was also a member of the men’s rowing team. He worked for several startups, including Relevance and GitHub. He loved working with small teams of smart and driven developers and cherished the long-term friendships that grew from those working relationships. After leaving the corporate world, he founded his own company, Workshop 64, where he continued to build tools that he believed were missing from the software space. He created a web app, BuildPulse, which quickly sold on the open market. He then turned his focus to creating a scuba dive logging app, EveryDive, that he gifted to divers around the globe. Survivors include his wife, Michelle (Kraft) Rudolph (Col class of ’00).