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