[1] Diener served as an assistant dean and professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
[1] Virginia Governor Chuck Robb appointed Betty Jane Diener as the state Secretary of Commerce in 1982.
Betty Jane Diener removed the term "plantation" from Virginia tourism brochures, arguing that recalled the state's history of slavery prior to the American Civil War.
[1] She then became a professor of management and analysis at the Andreas School of Business of Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, from 2002 to 2012.
[1] Diener, a resident of Fort Lauderdale, died from pulmonary fibrosis at a health clinic in Weston, Florida, on January 23, 2015, at the age of 73.