About Janet Holt
Janet Lee Holt is a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty, which has offices in Stafford and Fredericksburg, Virginia. She represents sellers and buyers of residential property, including investors, and also handles land and new construction transactions.
Janet began her career with a degree in Interior Design in 1977. She became interested in the business aspects of real estate and went to law school, and in 1981 joined the Minneapolis law firm of Larkin, Hoffman, Daly, and Lindgren. There she represented such clients as Northwestern Banks (now Wells Fargo), the Minneapolis Park Board, and various commercial interests instrumental in the redevelopment of the Minneapolis riverfront. She began her own small practice after 2 years in order to spend more time with her children, and also became a real estate broker and began teaching at a local college. Janet spent 9 years teaching for ProSource, the Midwest’s largest real estate education firm, and was also training manager for West Publishing, the world’s largest provider of computer-assisted legal research.
In 1994 Janet came to Stafford and began teaching as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, where she obtained an advanced degree and where she still teaches occasionally. She was also Associate Editor of TRIAL magazine in Georgetown but decided to give up the commute and focus on the real estate business in her own community.
Janet has been married for 26 years to Dennis McEvoy. Dennis is an owner and senior project manager with FoxCor, Inc. and serves as the owner’s representative on various construction projects around the country for the hospitality industry, primarily Harrah’s. Daughter Meg McEvoy, 25, is a UVA graduate employed at a law frim in Washington, D.C. Son Alex McEvoy, 23, is studying biology at ODU, and son Andrew McEvoy, 22, is a classical guitarist studying at VCU.
Janet is an active member of the Aquia Evening Lions and Business Networking International (BNI), and serves as a Diplomat with the Greater Fredericksburg Area Chamber of Commerce. She takes pride in applying her broad knowledge of the real estate business and her service orientation to best represent the interests of her clients.
