Couple announce wedding plans

Eleanor “Ellie” Wiley Knight of Bainbridge Island is engaged to James Joseph McGinley IV of Montecito, Calif. The couple is planning an April 2013 wedding. - Photo courtesy of Larry Knight
Photo courtesy of Larry Knight
Eleanor “Ellie” Wiley Knight of Bainbridge Island is engaged to James Joseph McGinley IV of Montecito, Calif. The couple is planning an April 2013 wedding.

August 29, 2012 · 10:02 AM

Louis “Larry” C. Knight and Marianne E. Wiley of Bainbridge Island are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Eleanor Wiley Knight (Bainbridge High School Class of 1997) to James Joseph McGinley IV, son of Sonia and James J. McGinley III of Montecito, Calif.

The couple met in San Francisco in August 2010.

Until this May, the groom-to-be was the vice president of enterprise analytics at socially-minded start-up Progreso Financiero.

In June, the couple moved to Philadelphia, Pa. for McGinley’s new position as senior director of marketing and analysis for J.P. Morgan Chase. He graduated from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree and received his master’s degree from Duke University.

Similarly until this May, Wiley Knight worked as an associate in the San Francisco office of the law firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker. She recently sat for the Pennsylvania Bar Examination. She graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree and received a juris doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

The couple plan to wed on April 20, 2013 at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.

 

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