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Honored with “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” by National Trial Lawyers (2012), the YWCA Outstanding Woman Award for Law & Government (2011), the “Hats Off to Women Award” by the ABWA Cavalier Chapter (2011), as one of the Top Fifty “Super Lawyers” (2011) and one of the 25 Top Female “Super Lawyers” (2010 & 2011) in Virginia by Richmond magazine, in 2011, 2010 & 2005 by Virginia Business magazine as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite,” in 2009 as a “Leader in the Law” by Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly, in 2008 with the Congressional “Angels in Adoption” award, and from 2006 to 2012 as a “Super Lawyer” by Richmond magazine, Colleen Marea Quinn has represented hundreds of adopting parents, birth parents, adoptees, intended parents, surrogates, gestational carriers and egg donors since 1989. After graduating from the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia Law School in 1988, Quinn served as a clerk with the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, The Hon. Harry L. Carrico.

She is a Fellow, and has served on the Board of Trustees, of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (“AAAA”) and a Fellow, Founder, on the Executive Council and the Membership Chair of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (“AAARTA”), both select groups of attorneys with rigorous standards for membership. She speaks frequently at AAAA Annual Meetings, is the 2011 Mid-Year Conference Chair, Chaired the AAAA 2007 Annual Convention, was on the AAAA ARTS Taskforce and Committee, and Chaired the Birth Parent Representation Committee (1999 to 2003). In 2003, she published the AAAA “Representing Birth Parents Handbook.” She is the co-author of the recent Fifth Edition of the Virginia CLE “Adoption Procedures and Forms” book and co-editor of the Fourth Edition. She served as program chair and moderator for the first Lorman Adoption Seminar in 1997, for the first Virginia CLE Adoption Law Seminar in 1999 and for all subsequent programs. Quinn has qualified and served as an expert witness in adoption law in the Virginia court system and has been hired and deposed as an expert witness in surrogacy law. She is certified as a court approved Guardian ad Litem.

Quinn is a partner in the firm of Locke Partin DeBoer & Quinn, has achieved an “AV” rating, the highest given, by Martindale Hubbell, is a Fellow of the LCA, and a member of the ASRM, VTLA, RBA, VSB, and the AAJ. She is a Board member and President of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Richmond Chapter,
Chairman of the Richmond Women’s Business Consortium, Vice-President (former Secretary and Treasurer) of the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association, and serves and has served as the Chair and Co-Chair for numerous VTLA Committees.

Quinn devotes time and energy to various civic activities such as the VSDV Action Alliance, Petersburg Domestic Violence Task Force, LINC and previously the YWCA (Advisory Committee, President, Board member). She is a 1996 graduate of Leadership Metro Richmond, and was named in 1999 by Inside Business Magazine as one of “Richmond’s Top 40 Under 40.” She has served as a volunteer soccer coach and Destination Imagination coach and, in her spare time, teaches aerobics and scuba dives.