PRESIDENT
Gul Raza Gharbieh
Gul has served as a Career Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael S. Nachmanoff for the past decade. Her prior experience includes representing indigent defendants as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Eastern District of Virginia and practicing in Hogan Lovells’ Investigations, White Collar, and Fraud group. An active member of the EDVA legal community, Gul has served on the FBA-NOVA Board since 2015. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law and Yale University.
Northern Virginia Chapter:
Officers and Board of Directors
The Northern Virginia Chapter's officers and directors come from diverse legal backgrounds, including large firms, small firms, solo practitioners, judges, and law clerks. If you are interested in serving the Chapter as a volunteer, please visit our Committees page.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Cailyn Reilly Knapp
Baker Botts, LLP
700 K St NW, 20001
Washington, D.C. 20004
(202) 639-7773
VICE PRESIDENT
Jon M. Talotta
Hogan Lovells, LLP
8350 Broad Street, 17th Floor
Tysons, VA 22102
(703) 610-6156
jon.talotta@hoganlovells.com
SECRETARY
Jessica N. Carmichael
Carmichael, Ellis & Brock
108 N. Alfred Street, 1st Floor
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 684-7908
TREASURER
Alex Blanchard
U.S. Attorney’s Office
2100 Jamieson Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 299-3700
NATIONAL DELEGATE
Marc Eisenstein
Coburn Greenbaum & Eisenstein
1710 Rhode Island Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(703) 963-7164
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Lauren Wetzler
DIRECTOR
Hon. William E. Fitzpatrick
United States Magistrate Judge
Eastern District of Virginia
401 Courthouse Square
Alexandria, VA 22314
DIRECTOR
Susan R. Podolsky
Podolsky Law
1800 Diagonal Road # 600
Alexandria, VA 22314
(571) 366-1702
DIRECTOR
Dan Gopenko
Fish & Richardson
1000 Main Avenue SW
Washington, D.C. 20024
(202) 626-7745
gopenko@fr.com
DIRECTOR
Meghan Loftus
U.S. Attorney’s Office
2100 Jamieson Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 299-3700
DIRECTOR
Daniel Wallmuth
Vinson & Elkins
2200 Pennsylvania Ave NW
500 West
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 639-6762
DIRECTOR
Raj Parekh
Sparacino PLLC
1920 L St NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
DIRECTOR
Collette Corser
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
901 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
collette.corser@finnegan.com
DIRECTOR
Carrie Gray
Career Law Clerk
4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Alexandria, VA
DIRECTOR
Kirstin O’Connor
U.S. Attorney’s Office
2100 Jamieson Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 299-3799