VSB Diversity Section

Official Twitter handle for @VaStateBar Diversity Section. Formerly known as VSB Diversity Conference. Posts subject to VSB social media policy.

[VirginiaJLAP @virginiajlap]

Save the Date! The 2025 Women’s Legal Professional Retreat is February 28 to March 2 at The Virginian in Lynchburg, VA! Connect, learn, and recharge with fellow women legal professionals. Stay tuned for more details—this is an event you won’t want to miss!

[VSB Diversity Section @vsbdc]

Congratulations to new @VAStateBar President Michael York! We look forward to working with you! #vsbannualmeeting

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Thank you @ChidiIJames for your service as President of @VAStateBar. You served Virginia and its lawyers well!

[VSB Diversity Section @vsbdc]

Yvonne B. Miller, the first African American woman to serve in both @VaHouse and @VASenate, was an educator who taught in @NorfolkVA Public Schools and @Norfolkstate

In 2013, she was named a trailblazer in #AfricanAmericanHistory.
#BlackHistoryMonth

https://t.co/TNlYjibjmM

[VSB Diversity Section @vsbdc]

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." MLK, Strength to Love, 1963

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@KMartingayle @VAStateBar Cheers to another great meeting! Keep in touch!

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And with that #vsbannualmeeting has concluded. It was so great to see you this weekend! We hope to see you throughout the year as we continue on our mission to provide access to justice. @VAStateBar

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Baton passes to President Chidi James!

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Our past chair, Chidi James, takes the oath of office for @VAStateBar

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Thank you, Stephanie, for your service as President of @VAStateBar this past year. You were historic, you were amazing. Congratulations and well done!

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Congratulations to our Dunnaville Award winner, Justice Cleo Powell!

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Congratulations to our new chair, Candace Blydenburgh! We look forward to your leadership next year!

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Amazing panel on the the business and legal implications of DEI #vsbannualmeeting

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Our favorite sunrise!

[Kevin Martingayle @KMartingayle]

#sunrise in #vabeach

#peace

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Congratulations to our local bar leaders on their awards with @VAStateBar CLSBA!

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#vsbannualmeeting opens with our opening reception. Stop by. Food is great, company is better!

[VSB Diversity Section @vsbdc]

Congratulations Justice Powell for being named the recipient of the @vsbdc Dunnaville Award!

[UVA Law School @UVALaw]

Justice Cleo Powell ’82 of the Supreme Court of Virginia has received @VAStateBar’s Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award for her commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. https://t.co/lUCuG4ABM6

[kimscottesq @kimscottesq]

@vsbdc This was a dynamic conference. I wish I had more time to spend with the panelists.

[Virginia State Bar @VAStateBar]

VSB President Stephanie Grana and President-elect Chidi James join Michael Herring of McGuireWoods and Rashida MacMurray-Abdullah of Wiley Rein on a panel on the Culture of Diversity w/moderator Shemeka Hankin of Invictus Law. #DEI #Diversity

[VSB Diversity Section @vsbdc]

Attendees line up to ask questions of the panel on Implicit Biases at the Diversity Conference in Williamsburg, VA today! Awesome engagement all around