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Law: JOEL M. BIRKEN
A George Washington University School of Law graduate, Birken co-founded Rees Broome & Birken in 1974 with Jon Broome and the late Jim Rees. Half a century on, the law firm has become one of the 20 largest in the state, employing 50 attorneys. Birken remains at its head, handling cases involving closely-held and family […]
Law: MONICA T. MONDAY
Monday sits at the helm of a fast-growing Virginia law firm and heads the firm’s appellate practice. Gentry Locke doubled the size of its Richmond office in 2021, adding nine attorneys to expand its criminal and government investigations and renewable energy practices, moving it from the state’s ninth largest firm to the eighth. A William […]
Law: A. BENJAMIN SPENCER
In 2020, Spencer became the first Black dean of America’s oldest law school. A graduate of Morehouse College, Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Spencer started his career in private practice before joining the law faculty at the University of Richmond in 2004. An expert in civil procedure and […]
Real Estate: J. SCOTT ADAMS
In November 2021, Colliers announced Adams’ promotion from regional president to executive managing director for Colliers’ Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina, brokerages. Adams has more than 27 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry as an investment sales broker, project manager and consultant. Before he joined Colliers, Adams was regional president with CBRE […]
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Real Estate: MICHAEL HALLMARK
An underdeveloped swath of downtown Richmond drew Hallmark from Los Angeles to Virginia’s capital. After the mammoth proposed Navy Hill development failed to gain the necessary political traction, though, Hallmark stayed put. Hallmark, a founding partner of Future Cities, is seeing his ideas for Richmond re-envisioned in neighboring Henrico County. In October 2021, Hallmark received […]
Real Estate: JON JENNINGS
Jennings leads the general contracting firm founded in 1952 by his grandfather, bricklayer Lawrence Floyd Jennings. Jon Jennings joined the family business in 2000 and oversees the 350-employee company’s operations in the metro D.C. area and Richmond. L.F. Jennings has a broad portfolio of projects. In Washington, D.C., it’s building the U.S. Park Police Horse […]
Real Estate: JON M. PETERSON
Founded more than 57 years ago by Jon Peterson’s late father, Milt, Peterson Cos. is responsible for some of the most prominent mixed-use retail, residential and office developments in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Its projects include National Harbor, Virginia Gateway, Downtown Silver Spring, Rio Washingtonian Center, Burke Centre and Tysons McLean Office Park. Milt Peterson […]
2022 Virginia 500: Agriculture
CHAD BALLARD III PRESIDENT, BALLARD FISH & OYSTER CO. LLC, CAPE CHARLES GEORGE C. FREEMAN III CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, UNIVERSAL CORP., RICHMOND CORWIN HEATWOLE FOUNDING FARMER AND CEO, FARMER FOCUS, HARRISONBURG NEIL A. HOUFF PRESIDENT AND TRANSLOADING OPERATIONS MANAGER, HOUFF CORP., WEYERS CAVE WAYNE […]
Manufacturing: GREGORY H. TREPP
Trepp joined Hamilton Beach in 1996 as director of marketing, holding multiple senior leadership and executive leadership positions in the company’s consumer, international and commercial divisions. Before becoming president and CEO in 2017, he was president and CEO of its Hamilton Beach Brands Canada Inc. and Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. subsidiaries and CEO of its Kitchen Collection […]
Agriculture: WAYNE F. PRYOR
Pryor has a desk job, but he rarely misses an opportunity to get outside. “I will never tire of watching the sun come up over the farm in the morning, and then watching it set in the evening,” says the lifelong Goochland County hay and grain farmer. But he’s devoted decades to the Virginia Farm […]
