Gerarda Culipher is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Tulane Law, and served as legal extern to The Hon. Louis Moore (Eastern District of Louisiana) and as law clerk to The Hon. Loren A. Smith, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
For over a decade, Gerarda served in the Fairfax Circuit Court Clerk’s Office, as its Chief Deputy and Legal Counsel, in which capacity Gerarda oversaw the strategic and legal operation of a 180-person Constitutional Office, which covered many areas of law: probate, civil litigation, criminal jury and bench trials, jury duty procedures, real estate/land records, and vital records/historic records preservation.
Gerarda is a member of the Virginia and DC bars, and served as an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, teaching “American Legal Institutions.” She has lectured at the Omohundro Institute’s “Law & Legal Culture in Early America” symposium at William & Mary Law School where she presented “An Appraisement of the Legal Mind: The Legal Texts in the 1767 Estate Inventory of George Johnston, Sr.” Gerarda has taught CLEs (Virginia Continuing Legal Education classes) on various kinds of cases and administrative matters that come before trial courts in Virginia, trends in changes to the Code of Virginia and the practice of law in Virginia.
Gerarda has served on the Executive Board of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association (VWAA), the Northern Virginia Women Attorneys Association (NVWAA), the National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials & Clerks (NACRC), the International Association of Government Officials (iGO), the Fairfax County Small Business Commission, and the Fairfax Circuit Court’s Access to Justice Committee, as well as volunteering with the Fairfax Law Foundation’s “Wills on Wheels” pro bono legal assistance program.
Gerarda is a proud military spouse and mother of four, and looks forward to helping you.
