The VWAA Annual meeting will be held on June 20, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. by teleconference. Access information will be sent out by email prior to the meeting. The VWAA Board meeting will immediately follow the Annual meeting.

Join us on June 20, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. for a CLE on How to Identify and Get Help/Manage Stress and Anxiety. This CLE will be a ZOOM call (meeting time is EST) presented by Barbara Mardigian, Deputy Clinical Director of the Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program.

Please register prior to the CLE so you can earn credit. Additional information about the event can be found on the calendar.

On May 18, 2020 the Northern Virginia Chapter's Judicial Screening Committee conducted virtual interviews of four candidates for the anticipated vacancy on the 18th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Alexandria Circuit Court. The results of the screening interviews and additional information about each candidate can be found in the letter issued by the Virginia Women Attorneys Association on May 28, 2020.

On February 19, 2020 the VWAA's Judicial Screening Committee interviewed fifteen candidates for the vacancy on the Court of Appeals of Virginia, occasioned by Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr.'s appoitnment to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The results of the screening interviews and additional information about each candidate can be found in the letter issued by the Virginia Women Attorneys Association on February 25, 2020.

The year 2020 marks 100 years since the General Assembly voted to admit women to the Virginia State Bar.

Our lunch panel on January 28, 2020 celebrated this occasion with words of wisdom from Justice Cleo E. Powell, Anita Poston, and Vanessa T. Valldejuli.  It was a discussion our attendees from the local judiciary,  bar, and law school are not soon to forget.  We are honored to recognize these women as outstanding women leaders in the law. 

Special thank you to our panel moderator, Dean Kimberly Van Essendelft, Regent University School of Law, and our sponsors Pender & Coward, P.C.  and Aloupas Law, PLLC  for their generous support!