Fellow, The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

"Legal Elite," Taxes/Estates/Trusts, Virginia Business, 2020, 2023-2024

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2010 – 2025 (Copyright by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC)

“Virginia Rising Stars,” Tax, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2007 – 2009 and 2011 – 2012

Law Clerk to the Honorable H. Emory Widener, Jr., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 1996 – 1997