2020 NAMI Northern Virginia Board Officer Election Bios
Every year, NAMI Northern Virginia holds the voting for our Board Officer Elections at the Annual Membership Dinner. Due to COVID-19, the Annual Membership Dinner has been postponed and the voting for Board Officers will be done electronically. The electronic ballot will be sent to NAMI Northern Virginia members only. Please take a few minutes to review the 2020 Board Officer bios below, and submit your vote by Friday, May 15th. If you are not a NAMI Northern Virginia member, you can find out more about how to get involved here.
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Melinda VanLoweMelinda VanLowe is a trial attorney and owns her own law practice, The Law Office of Melinda L. VanLowe, PC, which she opened in 2011. She litigates criminal, traffic and education matters in Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Melinda's journey to her current position began after graduating from law school, when she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis J. Smith, former Chief Judge of the Fairfax County Circuit Court. Following her clerkship, Ms. VanLowe joined the firm of Greenspun and Mann, P.C., which is now Greenspun Shapiro PC. Melinda focused her practice on criminal defense, domestic relations and general civil litigation. She litigated a plethora of cases in federal and state courts ranging from reckless driving and driving while intoxicated to drug conspiracy and immigration fraud. For her work, Ms. VanLowe has been selected for inclusion on the Virginia and District of Columbia Super Lawyers list. In addition to her practice, Ms. VanLowe served as an adjunct professor of legal writing with the George Mason School of Law for the Fall semester of 2004 and an adjunct professor of Counseling, Interviewing and Negotiation skills with the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, for the Fall semesters of 2011 and 2012. Ms. VanLowe's peers elected her to serve on the Virginia State Bar Council in 2012 and she was re-elected in 2015. She also began service on the Nominating Committee of the Bar Council in 2014. Melinda was appointed to the Virginia State Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board and served for almost 5 years. Ms. VanLowe served as Vice Chair of the Fairfax County Circuit Court Committee. She is a former member of the Fairfax Bar Association Judicial Selection Committee. Finally, in addition to statewide bar activities, Melinda was a member of the Fairfax Bar Association, Northern Virginia Women Attorneys' Association and Northern Virginia Black Attorney's Association. |