About Manoli Loupassi

• Law Clerk for The Honorable James B. Wilkinson
• Circuit Court for the City of Richmond
• Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Richmond
• Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the County of Hanover
• Special Counsel for the Richmond Metropolitan Multi-jurisdictional Grand Jury for Chesterfield, Henrico, Hanover and the City of Richmond
• Attorney-Virginia Law & Government Affairs, P.C.

Government Service:

• Delegate 68th District, House of Delegates for the Commonwealth of Virginia (2008-2018)
• Courts of Justice Committee
• Chairman, House Subcommittee Judicial Selections
• Commerce and Labor Committee
• Member of the State Crime Commission (2011-2018)
• Vice-Mayor and President of Richmond City Council (2005-2006)
• City Councilman, City of Richmond, First District (2000-2006)
• Chairman of City’s Public Safety Commission (2000-2004)
• Member of City’s Economic Development Committee (2000-2004)
• Member of City’s Finance Committee (2000-2004)

Education:

• St.Christopher’s School-1985
• Washington and Lee University-1989
• J.D., T.C. Williams School of Law-1992

Awards:

• Outstanding College Students of America
• Who’s Who Among American Law Students
• American Jurisprudence Award
• Citizen of the Year for Public Service, 2000
• Virginia Business Magazine’s- Legal Elite Award (2003- present)
• Who’s Who Among American Executives and Professionals
• Style Weekly’s- Power List, 2006
• Style Weekly’s- Forty Under Forty, 2006
• Defender of Liberty Award from the American Conservative Union, 2011
• Super Lawyer, 2012 – present

Organizations and Civic Involvement:

• Board of Governor’s of the Virginia Bar Association (2015-2017)
• Board of the Richmond Holocaust Museum (2005-present)
• Board Member of Scottish-Rite Childhood Language Center (2006-2011)
• Board Member of Elk Hill Farm (2007-2014)
• Board of Richmond Ambulance Authority (2000-2003)
• St. Christopher’s Alumni Board (1997-2003)
• Washington & Lee- Class Agent (1997-2001), AAP Committee, Chairman of Richmond Phonathon (1995-2000)
• Treasurer, Richmond Republican Committee (1998-2006)
• Virginians for Jerry Kilgore- Finance Committee-Central Virginia Committee Chair
• George Bush for President 2004- Richmond Chair
• Former President, Sauer’s Garden Civic Association (1999-2000)
• American Hellenic Educational and Philanthropic Association
• Member of Richmond Downtown Rotary (1997-2004)
• Board of Police Athletic League (2002-2005)
• Board of Richmond Renaissance (2005-2006) Chairman, 2006
• Board of Greater Richmond Partnership- Chairman, 2006
• Board of the Richmond Stadium Operating Committee (2000-2006)
• CARITAS, Board of Directors (1996-2000)
• Sunday School Teacher- St. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral (1994-2018)
• Richmond Bar Association
• Richmond Criminal Bar Association
• National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• Virginia State Bar

Areas of Practice:

• Residential and Commercial Landlord-Tenant Law;
• Criminal and Traffic Defense *

*Manoli is a noted lecturer in both Landlord-Tenant and Fair Housing issues across the Commonwealth of Virginia

**Manoli recently co-authored Virginia’s Continuing Legal Education’s Handbook “Defense of Serious Traffic Cases in Virginia” and lectures other attorneys across the state in the defense of these types of cases

***Manoli was the chief sponsor 1. codifying the Commonwealth’s Rules of Evidence and 2. establishing a statewide judicial evaluation program