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Virginia Lawyers Weekly is proud to present the Class of 2023 of the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame!
The Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame event honors members of Virginia’s legal community who have been practicing for 30 years or more or who are over 60 years old.
Started in 2018, the Hall of Fame class celebrates attorneys who have made lasting marks on the legal field across the commonwealth of Virginia. Criteria for selection include: career accomplishments, contributions to the profession, contributions to the development of the law, contributions to the bar and the commonwealth and efforts to increase access to justice.
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Nominations open for 2024
Membership in the Hall of Fame is reserved for Virginia lawyers age 60 and older or who have been practicing for 30 years or more. Criteria for selection to the Hall will include:
- Career accomplishments
- Contributions to the development of the law in Virginia
- Contributions to the bar
- Contributions to the commonwealth of Virginia
- Efforts to improve the quality of justice in Virginia
Nominees may include retired lawyers, retired members of the judiciary and deceased lawyers. Current nominations will be considered for the Class of 2024.
Please join us in congratulating the Class of 2023 Hall of Fame honorees:
- Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Whiteford Taylor Preston, Richmond
- David P. Baugh, David P. Baugh, Esq., Richmond
- Pamela Belleman, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, Richmond
- Lynne Blain, Harmon Claytor, Glen Allen
- Ann Brakke Campfield, Barnes & Diehl, Richmond
- Judge Gayl Carr, Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court
- Mark Cummings, Sher, Cummings and Ellis, Arlington
- John G. “Chip” Dicks, Gentry Locke, Richmond
- Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn, Supreme Court of Virginia
- Cheryl Graham, Graham Law Firm, Leesburg
- Ilona Grenadier, Grenadier, Duffett, Levi, Winkler & Rubin, Reston
- Donna J. Hall, Goodman Allen Donnelly, Norfolk
- Sandra Havrilak, The Havrilak Law Firm, Fairfax
- Carol Honigberg, Reed Smith, McLean
- A.E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville
- George Howell III, Hunton Andrews Kurth, Richmond
- Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Retired)
- Helen Kemp, Virginia Estate & Trust Law, Richmond
- Kevin Locklin, Locklin & Coleman, Manassas
- Shawn Majette, ThompsonMcMullan, Richmond
- Mary C. Malone, Hancock Daniel, Richmond
- Richard Maxwell, Wood Rogers Vandeventer Black, Roanoke
- Donald McEachin (posthumous honoree), U.S. House of Representatives, Fourth District
- Dexter Odin, Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, Reston
- Brewster Rawls, Rawls Law Group, Henrico
- Gilbert Schill, McGuireWoods, Richmond
- Susan B. Tarley, Tarley Robinson, Williamsburg
- Courtney Allen Van Winkle, Allen Allen Allen & Allen, Richmond
- John White, Harness IP, Reston
- Hon. Marcus D Williams (Ret.), Juridical Solutions, Richmond
- F. Blair Wimbush, Norfolk Southern Corporation (Retired)
- Edward Zetlin, Baskin Jackson & Lasso, Falls Church