Draft:Colleen Marea Quinn
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Colleen Marea Quinn is an American attorney based in Richmond, Virginia, and the founder of Quinn Law Centers, LLC. She practices in adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART) law, personal injury law, and employment law.[1] Quinn served as President of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA) from 2016 to 2017,[2] and as President of the Virginia Law Foundation (VLF) in 2024, overseeing its 50th-anniversary year.[3] In 2008, she received the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's "Angels in Adoption" award, nominated by Congressman Eric Cantor.[4] She was inducted into the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame in 2025.[5]
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Early life and education
Quinn earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from the College of William & Mary in 1985. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988, where she served on the Moot Court Board and as Vice President of the Student Bar Association.[4] After law school, she served as a judicial clerk to Harry L. Carrico, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.[6]
Legal career
Quinn began her career in private practice in Richmond. By 2006, she was a director and equity owner at the firm Cantor Arkema, P.C., where she represented clients in personal injury cases including motor vehicle accidents, product liability, and sexual assault.[7] She founded the Women's Injury Law Center (WILC) in 1993 to provide female legal representation in injury cases, including issues specific to women and children.[7] She later became a partner at Locke, Partin, DeBoer & Quinn (subsequently Locke & Quinn),[6] before founding Quinn Law Centers, LLC.
In a 2006 profile, Quinn described creating WILC because she identified a need for women and mothers to receive legal representation from other women. The firm also conducted educational programs on topics such as personal safety and child injury prevention.[7]
Quinn co-authored the Fourth and Fifth Editions of the Virginia Continuing Legal Education publication Adoption Procedures and Forms, including a chapter on Virginia ART law. She published the AAAA Representing Birth Parents Handbook in 2003.[2] She has delivered more than 500 presentations across her practice areas and founded the "Raising the Bar: Greater RVA Law Talk" radio show.[1]
In 2022, Virginia Lawyers Weekly selected Quinn as one of Virginia's "Go To Lawyers" for employment law.[1]
Adoption and reproductive law
Quinn has been a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys since the 1990s, serving as President (2016–2017), Treasurer (2018), and in other leadership roles.[2] She received the AAAA President's Award in 2018.[2] In 2008, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute honored her as an "Angel in Adoption," nominated by U.S. Representative Eric Cantor for her contributions to adoption and child welfare in Virginia.[4]
In addition to her trial work, Quinn also practices adoption law, helping to connect parents with adopted children.[7] She has advocated for changes to Virginia's reproductive and adoption statutes and has served as an expert witness in adoption and surrogacy law.[1]
Virginia Law Foundation
Quinn was inducted as a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation in 2021 and served on the VLF Board of Directors from 2019 to 2025. She was named President-Elect in 2023[8] and served as President in 2024 during the foundation's 50th-anniversary year. Under her presidency, the foundation awarded more than $700,000 in grants to organizations promoting access to justice across Virginia and hosted the "Justice Resounding" gala at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond.[3]
Recognition
Quinn was inducted into the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame in 2025, an honor for attorneys who have practiced for 30 years or more and made lasting contributions to Virginia law.[5] She was named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly's inaugural class of "Influential Women of Law" in 2019[9] and served as the program's keynote speaker in 2025.[10] She received the Virginia Lawyers Weekly "Leader in the Law" award in 2009, where she was recognized for her leadership in adoption and surrogacy law and her service to the YWCA.[6] In 2015, she received the Virginia State Bar's Family Law Service Award.[11]
Community involvement
Quinn has served as President of the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association and President of the Richmond chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.[4] She has been involved with the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign and has contributed to the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance.[4] She is a member of the LGBT Bar Family Law Institute.[1] Since 2005, she has operated an internship program through her firm that has hosted more than 120 interns.[1]
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