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The Hon. Michael C. Allen (ret.)
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Henrico County
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Norfolk
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Threshold Counsel
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Norfolk
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Renee Berard Law
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Gentry Locke Attorneys
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Arlington County
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Decker Law
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Virginia Beach
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Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office
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Fairfax
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Decker Law
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Richmond
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Roanoke
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Richmond
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Richmond
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Henrico County
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Henrico County
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Richmond
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Norfolk
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Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
Norfolk
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Glen Allen
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Byrne Canaan Law
Richmond
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Louisa County
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McCandlish Lillard
Fairfax
James A.L. Daniel
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Danville
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Davis, Burch & Abrams
Chesapeake
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McLean
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Sands Anderson
Christiansburg
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Bean Kinney & Korman
Arlington County
Michael E. Derdeyn
Flora Pettit
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Rodney S. Dillman
Dillman Legal Group
Virginia Beach
Barry Dorans
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Virginia Beach
Tracie M. Dorfman
Hancock Daniel
Fairfax County
Sandra M. Douglas
Hancock Daniel
Glen Allen
Lisa Kent Duley
Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman
Glen Allen
Andrea Dunlap
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin
Norfolk
Broderick C. Dunn
Dunn Craig & Francuzenko
Fairfax County
Lawrence A. Dunn
McCandlish Holton
Richmond
Carl A. Eason
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Virginia Beach
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Roanoke
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Spotts Fain
Richmond
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Richmond
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Whiteford Taylor & Preston
Richmond
Lauren P. Farrar
Odin Feldman Pittleman
Reston
Justin S. Feinman
Williams Mullen
Richmond
Ryan Ferguson
Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
Richmond
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Friedman Fisher Verity
Richmond
Matthew A. Fitzgerald
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Richmond
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Richmond
Paulo E. Franco Jr.
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Richmond
Christian B. Franklin
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Richmond
Ryan D. Frei
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Richmond
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Frith & Ellerman Law Firm
Roanoke
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Jeffrey H. Geiger
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Richmond
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Chinn Gilstrap Law
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Fairfax
Jessica Golden
Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith
Chesterfield County
Michael Goodove
Swartz Taliaferro Goodove & Ufkes
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Brandan M. Goodwin
Kaufman & Canoles
Norfolk
Stephanie E. Grana
Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci
Henrico County
Terrence L. Graves
Sands Anderson
Richmond
Jeffrey H. Gray
Pender & Coward
Virginia Beach
Marc C. Greco
Glasser and Glasser
Norfolk
Matthew D. Green
Sands Anderson
Richmond
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Altmiller Melnick Demers
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Tysons
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Willcox Savage
Norfolk
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Richmond
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Norfolk
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Richmond
Meredith M. Haynes
Williams Mullen
Richmond
David W. Hearn
Sands Anderson
Richmond
Brett C. Herbert
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Richmond
Robert T. Hicks
Bean Kinney & Korman
Arlington County
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PJI Law
Fairfax
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Virginia Beach
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Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver
Harrisonburg
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Roanoke
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Tysons
David D. Hudgins
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton
White Stone
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Pender & Coward
Virginia Beach
Jim Hurley
Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
Norfolk
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Richmond
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Sands Anderson
Richmond
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Pierce Jewett
Richmond
Samuel Kaufman
Owen & Owens
Midlothian
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Kitchel Injury Law
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Steven A. Krieger
Steven Krieger Law
Arlington County
Scott Krystiniak
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Virginia Beach
Kari J. La Fratta
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen
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Troutman Pepper Locke
Richmond
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Pender & Coward
Virginia Beach
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Woods Rogers
Norfolk
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Hancock Daniel
Johnson City, Tenn.
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Miles & Stockbridge
Tysons
Stephen David Lofaso
Vanderpool Frostick & Nishanian
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Robert W. Loftin
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Richmond
Mark D. Loftis
Woods Rogers
Roanoke
C. Dewayne Lonas
Moran Reeves & Conn
Richmond
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Frith Anderson + Peake
Roanoke
Joshua F.P. Long
Woods Rogers
Roanoke
Matthew Long
Bowen Ten Long & Bal
Henrico County
John C. Lynch
Troutman Pepper Locke
Virginia Beach
R. Peyton Mahaffey
McCandlish Lillard
Fairfax
Christopher M. Malone
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Richmond
Brad Marrs
Marrs & Henry Law Firm
Richmond
Laura Maughan
Sands Anderson
Richmond
Julie C. Mayer
Dillman Legal Group
Virginia Beach
Lawrence J. McClafferty
McCandlish Lillard
Fairfax
Joel R. McClellan
Marks & Harrison
Henrico County
Robert W. McFarland
McGuireWoods
Norfolk
John D. McGavin
McGavin Boyce Bardot
Thorsen & Katz
Fairfax
Thomas John McKee Jr.
Greenberg Traurig
McLean
Matthew D. Meadows
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Williamsburg
John Merrick
Merrick Brock
Henrico County
John Messersmith
Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith
Chesterfield County
Juliane C. Miller
Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman
Alexandria
William H. Monroe Jr.
Glasser and Glasser
Norfolk
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Richmond
Chad A. Mooney
PLDR Law
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Joseph P. Moriarty
Willcox Savage
Norfolk
John B. Mumford Jr.
Hancock Daniel
Glen Allen
Christy L. Murphy
Bischoff Martingayle
Norfolk
Mark C. Nanavati
Sinnott Nuckols & Logan
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Jon A. Nichols
Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman
Glen Allen
Lonnie D. Nunley III
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Richmond
Griffin O’Hanlon
Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
Norfolk
John P. O’Malley
Williams Mullen
Richmond
Bill O’Mara
Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
Norfolk
Brendan O’Toole
Williams Mullen
Richmond
John R. Owen
Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman
Glen Allen
W. Benjamin Pace
Williams Mullen
Richmond
Julie S. Palmer
Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman
Glen Allen
Jennifer Lee Parrish
Parrish Snead Franklin Simpson
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Elizabeth Payne-Maddalena
Berenzweig Leonard
Tysons
John E. Peterson Jr.
Hancock Daniel
Glen Allen
Stephen Pierce
Surovell Isaacs & Levy
Fairfax
Douglas E. Pittman
Reed Smith
Richmond
Jeffrey S. Poretz
Miles & Stockbridge
Tysons
Juli M. Porto
Blankingship & Keith
Fairfax
Benjamin R. Rand
Blackburn, Conte, Schilling & Click
Richmond
Gary Reinhardt
Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith
Chesterfield County
Brian A. Richardson
Ford Richardson
Richmond
Rebecca Roberts
Moran Reeves & Conn
Richmond
Glen Michael Robertson
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Virginia Beach
David C. Rohrbach
Rohrbach Rosenthal
Alexandria
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Ernest Law Group
Virginia Beach
J. Benjamin Rottenborn
Woods Rogers
Roanoke
Daniel Royce
Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith
Chesterfield County
Julia A. Rust
Williams Mullen
Virginia Beach
John F. Sawyer
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Virginia Beach
Nathan H. Schnetzler
Frith Anderson + Peake
Roanoke
Carl R. Schwertz
Miles & Stockbridge
Richmond
Cullen D. Seltzer
Sands Anderson
Richmond
John C. Shea
Marks & Harrison
Henrico County
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Woods Rogers
Roanoke
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Richmond
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Singer Hoffman
Virginia Beach
Victor S. Skaff III
Glenn Robinson Cathey Skaff & White
Roanoke
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Richmond
James M. Snyder
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Richmond
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Norfolk
Henry C. Spalding III
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Norfolk
Heather R. Steele
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Tysons
Robert J. Stoney
Blankingship & Keith
Fairfax
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Newton & Sullivan Law
Roanoke
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Richmond
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Byrne Canaan Law
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Fairfax
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Virginia Beach
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Yates Appellate Law
Henrico County
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Rhodes Butler & Dellinger
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Vested Partners
Salem
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Farr Law Firm
Fairfax
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Virginia Elder Law
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Karen L. Fortier PC
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Fairfax
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Fairfax
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Anderson Desimone & Green
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Hook Law
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East Coast Elder Law
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The Law Office of Angela N. Manz
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McCarthy Elder Law
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McDowell Law Group
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The Peninsula Center for Estate and Lifelong Planning
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Norton Health Law
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Oast & Taylor
Portsmouth
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Henrico County
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Midlothian Estate and Elder Law
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Rack Law
Virginia Beach
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Alperin Law
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Gene Robinson Law
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Stillman Law
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DR. ASHISH CHAWLA
MATHER CHAIR AND DIVISION CHIEF, RADIATION ONCOLOGY, INOVA SCHAR CANCER, FALLS CHURCH
In October, Inova Schar Cancer in Falls Church became the first cancer center in the greater Washington, D.C., area to roll out adaptive online radiotherapy — one of the most advanced forms of personalized radiation therapy available today. Dr. Ashish Chawla, who sits at the helm of the radiation oncology division at Inova, says this new therapy helps identify changes in tumors and organs “in real time,” allowing doctors to “adjust treatment within minutes.” This, he explains, helps ensure “we are targeting the tumor as precisely as possible while protecting healthy tissue.”
Chawla earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Pennsylvania State University, his M.D. from Thomas Jefferson University, and completed his residency in radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital before serving as medical director of radiation oncology at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital before taking on his current role.
DR. WILLIAM A. COOPER
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, RESTON HOSPITAL CENTER, RESTON
“I am certainly not your average cardio-thoracic surgeon,” Dr. William Cooper writes on his LinkedIn page. Cooper leads Reston Hospital Center’s new heart surgery program. Opened in November, it’s the first new cardiac surgery program to launch in the Northern Virginia region in nearly four decades. Cooper is no stranger to leadership, and he’s worn many hats. He launched and built a heart surgery program at WellStar Health System in Georgia, and has served as an associate professor at Emory University, from which he received an MBA.
Cooper also founded Prime Health Services Group, which provides cardiovascular staffing and specialty solutions, and retired in 2019 as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves after nearly 35 years. His Army service included five deployments, including combat tours as a surgeon in Iraq and Kuwait and two tours in Afghanistan. Cooper is also the author of “Heart Attack: Truth, Tragedy, Triumph,” published in 2016.
DR. STEPHANIE GOLDBERG
VICE PRESIDENT, GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION, MARY WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE, FREDERICKSBURG
Under Dr. Stephanie Goldberg’s leadership, Mary Washington Healthcare Graduate Medical Education earned accreditation in November 2022, which “ensures we offer the best practices, research and advancements in educating the next generation of physicians,” she says.
In October this year, Goldberg was part of a team pitching a new medical school, tentatively called the Mary Washington College of Medicine, to address a severe physician shortage in the Fredericksburg region. Goldberg says the new medical school could diverge from more established models, which traditionally place heavy emphasis on diagnosis. Instead, the school would be focused on producing community physicians.
“The whole focus of medicine is going to change,” says Goldberg, a board-certified surgeon with special interests in general, emergency and trauma. She earned her M.D. and completed her general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University.
GARY and ANN LEBLANC
FOUNDERS, MERCY CHEFS, PORTSMOUTH
Chef Gary LeBlanc watched helplessly as the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina ravaged his hometown of New Orleans in 2005. LeBlanc immediately drove south from his Virginia home and was shocked to find people in shelters eating green beans directly from cans. In 2006, LeBlanc and his wife, Ann, launched Mercy Chefs, a faith-based nonprofit that gets hot meals to those weathering disasters and emergencies.
Before founding Mercy Chefs, Gary LeBlanc, who serves as the nonprofit’s CEO, had worked for more than three decades in hospitality.
Ann LeBlanc, daughter of the late televangelist Pat Robertson, works as Mercy Chefs’ president. Previously, she was an executive for the Christian Broadcasting Network and Regent University, both now run by her brother Gordon Robertson.
Over nearly two decades, Mercy Chefs has served over 30 million meals. In October, the nonprofit posted harrowing video of aid workers fleeing their delivery truck after it was bombed by a Russian drone in western Ukraine.
REBECCA C. ‘BECKY’ MASSEY
ADVISORY BOARD IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR, VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER, RICHMOND
Herself a cancer survivor, Becky Massey has long served on the comprehensive cancer center’s advisory board, chairing it in 2024. Under her tenure, the center raised over $6 million through its 50th Anniversary Fund and celebrated the anniversary with a Golden Gala.
A Massey center volunteer for more than 30 years, Massey also drove the creation of Becky’s Garden, a rooftop healing garden at the center that opened in 2006. In 2007, she received one of YWCA Richmond’s Outstanding Women Awards.
Massey and her husband, William E. Massey Jr., are board members of the Massey Family Foundation. The foundation and family members donated to expand and name the cancer center in 1983 and continue to support it.
Massey’s latest passion project is supporting nonprofit Cancer Retreat Centers, which operates a retreat at Richmond’s Blanton House and is seeking to open additional locations to provide free programs throughout Central Virginia.
CANDACE MRAZ
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, MRAZ AND CO.; CO-FOUNDER, FREEHORSE ARTS, ASHLAND
Candace Mraz wants to create a more inclusive Central Virginia. That includes making sure people with disabilities are welcomed in the music and art scenes.
Mraz is a co-founder of FreeHorse Arts, a Hanover County-based nonprofit that offers arts education, nature-based programming and equine experiential learning to people with diverse abilities. Candace’s brother, Grammy-winning singer Jason Mraz, will play at the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen on Dec. 13-14 as part of the FreeHorse Songwriter Series, a fundraising event that previously featured singer-songwriter Paul Williams, a FreeHorse Arts board member.
Mraz is also a managing partner of an event venue and destination planned for Central Virginia called Sugar Creek. It will offer a workforce training program for people with disabilities.
She also has a day job. This year, Mraz & Co., the Richmond-based creative agency Mraz founded, celebrated its fifth anniversary. Clients include Kindness Cafe + Play, Charlottesville coffee shops that employ adults with cognitive disabilities.
DR. KELLY ORZECHOWSKI
CHIEF OF WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICES, VHC HEALTH, ARLINGTON COUNTY
A female-led team of doctors, including Dr. Kelly Orzechowski, helped design the Charlotte Stump Benjamin Center for Women’s Health, which offers women’s health services, from prenatal care to menopause, in one 26,000-square-foot space. The center, which opened in 2023, is located on the fifth floor of VHC Health’s Outpatient Pavilion.
Women get better care at the Benjamin Center, Orzechowski has said, because the health practitioners all work in the same space and can consult about cases face-to-face.
As VHC’s chief of women’s health services, Orzechowski facilitates coordinated care efforts throughout the center. Specializing in maternal fetal medicine, she joined VHC Health in 2014.
After earning a master’s degree in public health at George Washington University, Orzechowski graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada. In her free time, she is a marathoner.
ANDY SPICKNALL
PRESIDENT, BON SECOURS HARBOUR VIEW MEDICAL CENTER, SUFFOLK
Andy Spicknall is the inaugural president of Bon Secours’ $80 million, 100,000-square-foot Harbour View Medical Center in Suffolk. He led the hospital’s development, design and recruitment, culminating in its opening this past May. The hospital has a staff of about 100 people, 18 private inpatient rooms and four new operating rooms, a freestanding emergency department and on-site laboratory and imaging services.
Spicknall first joined the health system more than a decade ago as an administrative resident at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth. He later held several other positions in the market, including administrative director of operations and ambulatory services and vice president of operations for Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center.
Spicknall has a master’s degree in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and a bachelor’s degree in business from Virginia Tech. An active community member, he volunteers with the American Heart Association and serves on several boards.
DR. DEEPAK TALREJA
CLINICAL CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY, SENTARA HEALTH, VIRGINIA BEACH
On an August morning, a man suffered a heart attack while driving in Virginia Beach. Fortunately, he crashed near the office of Dr. Deepak Talreja, Sentara Health’s chief of cardiology, who had been locked out of his office and just happened to hear the crash. He rushed to the scene and performed CPR for at least eight minutes, saving the man’s life.
The rescue marked one extraordinary moment in a career defined by community service for Talreja, who was named 2025 Physician of the Year by the John J. Krueger Foundation, whose founder once mentored him in high school.
A Virginia Beach native, Talreja has practiced cardiology at Sentara Health for more than 20 years, serving in numerous leadership roles. A founding member of the Structural Heart Program at Sentara Heart Hospital, he also helped create a cardiology fellowship with Old Dominion University and teaches at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
NOVELLA THOMPSON
ADMINISTRATOR, DEPARTMENT OF POPULATION HEALTH, UVA HEALTH, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Novella Thompson works to close gaps in health care. Sometimes that means thinking outside hospital walls.
When Greene County residents asked for primary care closer to home, Thompson, administrator of UVA Health’s Population Health department, announced in October that the health system’s mobile care unit would begin making monthly visits to the Greene County Senior Center in Stanardsville.
Thompson also oversees UVA Health’s Community Paramedicine program. Launched in 2022, that initiative pairs paramedics with patients who have a history of visiting emergency rooms for routine health care. During home visits, paramedics do things like connect these patients with primary care providers.
Additionally, Thompson leads UVA Health programs like remote patient monitoring, home health services, and the homeless consultation program.
During a recent Becker’s Healthcare podcast, Thompson told other health care leaders that innovation will sometimes be met with skepticism. But “if you believe deeply in your work,” she says, “hold steady to it.”
CHRIS TURNBULL
CHIEF OF STAFF, CARILION CLINIC, ROANOKE
On Chris Turnbull’s desk you’ll find a copy of “There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift.”
Turnbull, who has two daughters, likes to learn things. Sometimes that means reading about the creative decisions of a cultural phenomenon.
Turnbull joined Carilion Clinic in 2014 as a senior adviser in public relations and corporate communications. Six years later, he was named senior director of corporate communications.
When he became chief of staff to Carilion Clinic President and CEO Steve Arner in early 2025, he took time to consult other executives who held similar jobs, in health care, yes, but also in tech and the armed forces.
The takeaway from those conversations was that his job is to make Arner’s life easier. “Like, what can [I] take off his plate, so that the amount of thought and effort he has to put in is pointed in the right direction?” Turnbull says.
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The December question every leader should anticipate
As the year winds down, our calendars fill with two things: out-of-office replies and existential dread. December has a funny way of putting a mirror in front of us. In the quiet between deadlines and family gatherings, a perennial set of questions shows up:
- What am I doing with my life?
- Do I still want to be doing this work?
- Am I moving forward — or just moving?
These aren’t wellness journal prompts. They’re career-defining questions. And like clockwork, millions of workers will ask them over the next few weeks. According to Pew, 56% of U.S. employees say the end of the year is when they evaluate whether their job aligns with their long-term goals. At the same time, Gallup finds that feeling a sense of purpose at work increases performance by up to 49% and cuts turnover intention by nearly half.
This is the season of purpose. And as a leader, you ignore that at your peril.
Your people are having these conversations — with or without you. At dinner tables, on long drives to visit family, during the quiet moments before the New Year’s countdown, your employees will wonder: What does 2026 hold for me? Do I matter? Should I stay or should I go?
You can’t stop that reflection, but you can shape it.
Leaders often think purpose is something people need to “find.” But most of the time, purpose just needs to be reminded. Reinforced. Spoken out loud by someone who sees what they bring to the organization.
Now is when your people need to hear:
- Why their work matters.
- How their effort connects to the mission.
- What strengths they bring that no one else does.
- Where they can grow in 2026.
- In other words, give them a reason to stay and a reason to strive.
- The small gesture with outsized ROI
- Recognition is not soft. Recognition is strategy.
Companies in the top quartile for employee appreciation win the turnover battle. Research shows that a single act of meaningful recognition improves engagement for up to a month. That’s an ROI most marketing budgets would kill for.
My own ritual: Every year I write a personalized note to every team member — often handwritten, mailed, old-school. It’s not performative. It’s gratitude. These people could work anywhere. They chose to lend their talent, intelligence, and energy to this organization. That’s not nothing.
Recognition does three things at once:
- Anchors purpose (“This is why your work matters.”)
- Signals worth (“I see you.”)
- Builds loyalty (“You matter here.”)
- Simple, human, wildly effective.
Your December job as a leader
As you close out 2025, you have one job more important than budgets, strategic plans, or final pushes: Give your people back their sense of purpose.
Not through slogans — through specificity. Through gratitude. Through a conversation that reminds them they matter — to the work, to the mission, and to you.
If you can’t remember the last time you did that, December is your moment.
Here’s hoping you end 2025 with clarity — and begin 2026 with momentum, purpose, and a team that knows exactly why they’re here.
Jaime Raul Zepeda is the executive vice president and principal consultant at Best Companies Group, which helps organizations build high-performing and highly engaged employees. Best Companies Group has helped over 10,000 companies understand and improve their workplace using data-driven strategies. Contact him at [email protected].