Catherine Reese

Catherine Reese

Reese Law P.C.

Profile

Catherine “Kate” Reese focuses her practice on the full spectrum of family law matters in the Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland regions. She has extensive trial experience in contested divorces, child custody and visitation matters, equitable distribution of assets, child and spousal support, and the negotiation and preparation of prenuptial and marital agreements..

Education

Columbus School of Law, 1998, Juris Doctrate

Admitted to Practice

VA, MD, DC 1998

Legal Organizations

  • American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers as an Academy fellow Member, Virginia State Bar, 1998-Present
  • LGBT Bar Assn., 2017-Present
  • Council for the 19th Judicial Circuit, Virginia State Bar, July 2009-June 2015
  • Member of Standing Committee on Lawyer Discipline, Virginia State Bar, July 2009-June 2015
  • Member of Judicial Nominations Committee, Virginia State Bar, NBLSC Board Certified Family Trial Attorney, July 2005-June 2008
  • Member of the Family Law Section, Virginia State Bar, 1998-Present
  • Member, Fairfax Bar Assn., 1998-Present
  • Member of the Domestic Relations Sub-Committee, Fairfax Bar Assn., 2007-Present
  • Member of the Circuit Court Committee, Fairfax Bar Assn., 1999-Present
  • Member of the Family Law Section, Fairfax Bar Assn., 1998-Present
  • Member, Maryland State Bar, 1999-Present
  • Member of the Family Law Section, Maryland State Bar, 1999-Present
  • Member, District of Columbia Bar, 1999-Present
  • Member of the Family Law Section, District of Columbia, 1999-Present
  • Member of the Family Law Section, Prince William County Bar, 2007-Present
  • President, Virginia Women Attorneys Assn., June 2011-present
  • State Treasurer, Virginia Women Attorneys Assn., July 2008-Present
  • Assistant State Treasurer, Virginia Women Attorneys Assn., July 2006-June 2008
  • President of the Northern Virginia Chapter, Virginia Women Attorneys Assn., 2003-2004
  • Secretary of the Northern Virginia Chapter, Virginia Women Attorneys Assn., 2002-2003
  • Neutral Case Evaluator by appointment, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, 2008
  • Board of Directors Member, Legal Services of Northern Virginia, 2002-2003
  • Member, Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals, 2009-Present
  • Member, Collaborative Professionals of Northern Virginia, 2009-Present
  • Member, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, 2009-Present
  • Member, Virginia Collaborative Professionals, 2009-Present
  • Virginia Supreme Court Family Mediator for Juvenille and Domestic District and Circuit Court, 2010-present
  • Montgomery County Maryland Bar Association, 2011-present.

CLE Presentations

  • Moderated a panel of Judges in 2014 for the Gathering Your Tools: How to Build to Judgeship at the VWAA annual conference, featuring the following Judges: The Honorable Sarah Deneke
  • The Honorable Becky J. Moore
  • The Honorable Constance H. Frogale
  • Substitute Judge Mary C. Gibbs
  • and Retired Judge Karen A. Heneberg.
  • Presented Case Law and Legislative Updates at the Arlington Bar Assn’s. 20th Annual Family Law Seminar, March 2003 and was a presenter of the same program for the Virginia Trial Lawyers Assn. Family Law Continuing Legal Education Seminars, July 2003
  • Presented Recent Developments in Virginia Family Law, August 2001-September 2002, for the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar in Richmond and Roanoke
  • Participated as a lecturer for the Virginia State Attorney General’s Office Statewide Attorney Training Seminar 2000, for the Division of Child Support Enforcement, where she presented a section entitled

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