BRINCKMAN & BRINCKMAN, P.C. - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Anne Park Brinckman - Attorney at Law

Anne Park Brinckman was born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her practice currently emphasizes divorce and custody litigation, adoption, criminal defense (including DWI/DUI and serious traffic offenses), general civil litigation, wills, and representation of the Montgomery County Department of Social Services and the Radford City Department of Social Services in child abuse, foster care, and adult protective services matters. While at Virginia Tech, Anne participated in the Honors Program and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society as a junior, an honor that required her to be in the top 1% of her class. She was awarded the Dean's Scholar Rising Senior Award for the entire College of Arts and Sciences. She made the Dean's List every semester enrolled and was awarded both of the two awards given by the Sociology Department annually at graduation for outstanding service and academics and for the highest grade point average. Throughout college, Anne participated in a number of public service activities and, for two years, served as Head Resident Advisor of a dormitory, supervising a staff of five resident advisors. After college and after working as a foster care social worker for several years, Anne moved on to attend law school at William and Mary. Anne graduated the law school as a Legal Skills Scholar as one of only 16 students recognized every semester for excellence in research, writing, analysis, trial and appellate practice, and client relations. She also served as a Teaching Assistant in the Legal Skills Program as one of 10 third year law students to assist in teaching Legal Skills to first and second year students. Anne participated in William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law and was awarded a Dean's Certificate upon graduation for outstanding contribution to the law school. In addition to excelling academically, Anne served as an Honor Council Justice and as the student representative on the Law School Outreach Committee of the Virginia Bar Association's Community Service Program. Anne was also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Public Service Fund and was a Virginia Bar Association Community Servant, dedicating a minimum of 50 hours of service annually by participating in legal clinics run by the local Legal Aid Society.

Job Titles:

• Anne Park Brinckman - Attorney at Law
• Douglas Edward Brinckman - Attorney at Law

Douglas Edward Brinckman was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia and graduated from Thomas A. Edison High School. He received his B.A. degree in Economics (minor in English) from Virginia Tech in 1973 and his Juris Doctorate law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1976. After being licensed and having practiced law during 1976 and 1977 in Spokane, Washington, he returned to Blacksburg, Virginia in 1977 and taught Business Law classes at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech during 1977-78 and 1978-79. He has practiced law in the federal and state courts in Virginia since 1978, while continuing to teach business law classes at the College of Business and Economics at Radford University. Doug has a general law practice with an emphasis on business transactions and planning, criminal and traffic defense, civil litigation, and family law. He has represented clients at all levels of the Virginia court system (lower and general trial courts, Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Virginia), including jury trials in serious felony cases such as capital murder, rape, robbery and burglary. In addition to his teaching experience at Virginia Tech (courses including the Business Law sequence, Contemporary Law, Securities Regulation, and Fundamentals of Business Law) where he was awarded the Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Doug has taught law classes at the undergraduate and graduate level for the College of Business and Economics at Radford University, where he is a tenured Professor of Business Law and has received the university-wide Radford University Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching. Doug feels a strong affinity with the academic communities at both Radford University and Virginia Tech and has enjoyed representing students and faculty from both institutions for over three decades in a wide range of civil, traffic and criminal cases. Doug and his wife, Aline Savine Park Brinckman, have lived in Blacksburg, Virginia since 1977 and together have raised their four children, Jason, Anne, Matthew and Kenneth, two of whom earned their bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, another earning both a bachelor's and master's degree from Virginia Tech, another earning a bachelor's degree from the College of Charleston, and one earning a master's degree from Radford University. Doug has been involved in numerous community service activities, has served on the Board of Directors for several small business corporations and civic organizations, and received a U.S. Jaycees Outstanding Young Men of America award for professional achievement and exceptional community service. Since 2005, Doug has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. which provides legal services to the poverty population in approximately 17 counties in the southwestern region of Virginia encompassing an area about the size of New Jersey.