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Debra Powers is attending the Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach
Debra Powers is attending the Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach. She will be attending meetings and activities relating to her service on Bar Council, as well as her service on the Board of Governors of the Diversity Conference and the Board of Governors of the Family Law Section. She is especially excited to attend the Diversity Conference’s CLE – Representing the Developmentally Disabled in Virginia Criminal Proceedings: What you Don’t Know Can Hurt You and Your Client. This CLE has a great panel, including Senator Jennifer McClellan and Nick Dubin, PsyD – a leading advocate for legislative reform for the intellectually and developmentally disabled.
All four of our THP attorneys are 2022 Super Lawyers Honorees (again)!
Leigh Taylor since 2020, Kim Huguley 2017, Debra Powers since 2016, and our newest edition to the team, Roberta Henault since 2013! #superlawyers #superlawyers2022
Welcome Roberta!
We are pleased to welcome Roberta K. Henault to our firm.
Effective May 1, 2022, Taylor Huguley Powers PLLC is pleased to announce that Roberta K. Henault has joined our firm. Roberta has practiced family law in Northern Virginia since 2000 and most recently was a partner at ShounBach.
Roberta is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America®, Family Law and as a Super Lawyer® in Virginia and Washington, D.C. She has Martindale Hubbell’s highest rating of AV Preeminent, and she has received many more awards, recognitions, and accolades from the legal community throughout her career. Roberta will continue serving estate planning and family law clients with compassion and zealousness, including representing military members and their spouses.
38th Annual Advanced Family Law Seminar 2022
Our very own Debra Powers, a proud member of the VSB Family Law Section Board of Governors, invites you to attend the 38th Annual Advanced Family Law Seminar 2022.
Congratulations Justice Jackson!
Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States!
IWD 2022 campaign theme: #BreakTheBias
Secretary-General’s message 2022 On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women and girls everywhere. We celebrate their contributions to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Their ideas, innovations and activism that are changing our world for the better. And their leadership across all walks of life. But we also recognize that in too many areas, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. The pandemic has kept girls and women out of schools and workplaces. They face rising poverty and rising violence. They do the vast majority of the world’s unpaid but essential care work. They’re targets of violence and abuse, just because of their gender. In all countries, women are scandalously under-represented in the halls of power and the boardrooms of business. And as this year’s theme reminds us, they bear the brunt of climate change and environmental degradation. Starting now, on International Women’s Day, it’s time to turn the clock forward for every woman and girl. Through guaranteeing quality education for every girl, so they can build the lives they want and help make the world a better place for us all. Through massive investments in women’s training and decent work. Through effective action to end gender-based violence. Through bold action to protect our planet. Through universal care that is fully integrated into social protection systems. And through targeted measures like gender quotas so we can all benefit from women’s ideas, experience and leadership everywhere decisions are made. Gender inequality is essentially a question of power, in a male-dominated world and a male-dominated culture. Power relations must be reversed. At the United Nations, we’ve achieved gender parity in senior management at headquarters and around the world — improving our work and better representing the communities we serve. We need more women environment ministers, business leaders and presidents and prime ministers. They can push countries to address the climate crisis, develop green jobs and build a more just and sustainable world. We cannot emerge from the pandemic with the clock spinning backwards on gender equality. We need to turn the clock forward on women’s rights. The time is now. António Guterres
Celebrating Women’s History Month
In the United States, Women’s History Month traces its beginnings back to the first International Women’s Day in 1911. In 1978, the school district of Sonoma, California participated in Women’s History Week, an event designed around the week of March 8 (International Women’s Day). In 1979, a fifteen-day conference about women’s history was held at Sarah Lawrence College from July 13 until July 29, chaired by historian Gerda Lerner. It was co-sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Smithsonian Institution. When its participants learned about the success of the Sonoma County’s Women’s History Week celebration, they decided to initiate similar celebrations within their own organizations, communities, and school districts. They also agreed to support an effort to secure a National Women’s History Week. In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as Women’s History Month. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month.
We are pleased to announce that Debra Powers and K. Leigh Taylor have been selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for Family Law
Recognition by Best Lawyers® is based entirely on peer review and the consensus of opinions by leading lawyers within our same geographical area and legal practice area.
Leigh and Debra continue to help families and individuals throughout northern Virginia navigate their family law issues, including divorce, property division, custody, visitation, spousal support, child support, and protective orders.
Way to go, Debra & Leigh!
Celebrate Independence Day!
Independence holiday provides our nation with a time to celebrate its independence and freedom. Our national heroes who fought and laid down their lives to secure our independence as a nation deserve to be remembered not only on Independence Day but always. Politicians often use the occasion to promise to preserve the liberties and freedom we enjoy, work toward improving the welfare of the masses, and continue building a great nation that we all can rely on and be proud of.
K. Leigh Taylor Partner
Kim Huguley Partner
Debra Powers Partner