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NOVABAA Members in the News
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NOVABAA is quite fortunate to have in its ranks such accomplished, ambitious and talented judges and attorneys. Each day throughout Northern Virginia NOVABAA members are demonstrating their commitment to excellence in the practice of law. This page seeks to highlight their various accomplishments. To print an exhaustive list of our members' professional awards and accomplishments would not be possible due to the constraints of space and time. Yet, the following list humbly endeavors to highlight some of the many accomplishments that our members continue to achieve.
2022
1. Damon Colbert is selected for the 2022 Class of Virginia Super Lawyers. - January 2022
2. Hon. Gerald Bruce Lee is inducted into Virginia Law Foundations Fellows Class of 2022 - January 2022
3. Monique Miles is selected to serve as a Deputy Attorney General over Government Operations and Transactions - January 2022
4. Juanita Ferguson is selected by the Fairfax Bar Foundation's Fellow's Program as a Leader of Justice - January 2022
5. Dipti Pidikiti-Smith is inducted into Virginia Law Foundations Fellows Class of 2022 - January 2022
6. Chidi James slated to become second ever African American President of Virginia State Bar - March 2022
7. Lavonda Graham-Williams is recognized as Prince William County's Trial Attorney of the Year for the J&DR Court - April 2022
8. Felisha Thomas Hardy is recognized as Prince William County's Guardian ad litem of the Year - April 2022
9. Winta Mengisteab is named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly's 2022 Class of Influential Women in the Law - April 2022
10. Rex Flynn elected to the Virginia State Bar Council - April 2022
11. Tamika Jones elected to the Virginia State Bar Council - April 2022
1. Natalia Wilson elected President of the Fairfax Bar Foundation – January 2021
2. Broderick Dunn elected to the Board of Directors of the Fairfax Bar Foundation – January 2021
3. Hon. Melinda Van Lowe appointed second African American woman to Fairfax County J&DR Court - February 2021
4. Hon. Petula Metzler is elevated to Circuit Court in Prince William County - February 2021
5. Hon. Jane Reynolds appointed to Stafford County's General District Court
6. Hon. Che Rogers is appointed to Prince William County's General District Court - February 2021
7. Darwyn Easley is appointed to serve as a substitute judge in Fairfax County - February 2021
8. Vanessa Jordan is appointed to serve as a substitute judge in Fairfax County - February 2021
9. Todd Pilot elected to the Virginia State Bar Council - April 2021
10. Bridget Lipscomb begins term as President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia - June 2021
11. Carla Brown recognized by Virginia Lawyers Weekly as a Go To Lawyer in Employment Law - June 2021
12. Kellie Budd recognized by Virginia Lawyers Weekly's 2021 Class of Influential Women in the Law - June 2021
13. Tamika Jones is appointed to serve as a substitute judge in Fairfax County - June 2021
14. Rex Flynn is elected to second term as President of the Arlington County Bar Association - July 2021
15. Hon. Dominique Callins is appointed to Virginia's Court of Appeals - August 2021
16. Hon. Vernida R. Chaney is appointed to Virginia's Court of Appeals - August 2021
17. Hon. Patricia T. Giles is confirmed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia's Alexandria Division - October 2021
18. Hon. Vanessa Jordan is appointed to Fairfax County's General District Court - November 2021
19. Hon. W. Michael Chick is appointed to Arlington County's Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court - December 2021
20. Chidi James is awarded the James Keith Public Servant Award by the Fairfax Bar Association - December 2021
2020
2. Deborah Ann Wilson profiled in Virginia Lawyers Magazine - February 2020
3. Joshua Wilson profiled in Virginia Lawyers Magazine - February 2020
4. Hon. Lorrie Sinclair-Taylor appointed first African American Judge in Loudoun County - March 2020
5. Hon. Jacqueline Lucas appointed second African American woman J&DR Judge in Prince William County - March 2020
6. Donna Banks elected first African American president of historic Fairfax Bar Association - July 2020
7. Rex Flynn elected second African American President of Arlington County Bar Association - July 2020
8. Tamika Jones elected first African American woman President of Alexandria Bar Association - July 2020
9. Hon. Tania Saylor appointed first African American woman Circuit Court Judge in Northern Virginia (Fairfax) - December 2020
10. Kellie Budd receives the GWAC Bar's Barbara Whiting-Wright Trailblazer Award - December 2020
2019
2. Jane Reynolds selected to Sorenson Institute's Political Leader's Class - January 2019
3. Hon. Dontae L. Bugg appointed to the Fairfax County Circuit Court - April 2019
4. Todd Pilot profiled in Virginia Lawyers Magazine - April 2019
5. Hon. Rossie D. Alston appointed to the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Va - Alexandria Division - June 2019
6. Hon. Turkessa Rollins appointed to the Prince William County General District Court - July 2019
7. Chidi James elected Chair of the Virginia State Bar's Diversity Conference - July 2019
8. Victoria Walker selected to serve in the Virginia State Bar's Young Lawyers Conference - July 2019
9. Mohamed Seifeldein presented with Alexandria Chamber of Commerce's 40 under 40 award - July 2019
10. Monique Miles presented with Alexandria Chamber of Commerce's 40 under 40 award - July 2019
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