VADA 2011 2011 YLD Boot Camp
December 02, 2011
Excellence in Civil Litigation Award
Hon. Paul F. Sheridan (Ret.)
The Board of Directors of the VADA is pleased to announce that this year's recipient of its Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation is The Honorable Paul F. Sheridan (Ret.).
Judge Sheridan will receive his award at the 2010 VADA Annual Meeting Luncheon at The Homestead on Thursday, October 14.
Before joining The McCammon Group upon his retirement, Judge Sheridan was chief judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court, County of Arlington, of which he had been a sitting judge since 1985. His many awards, recognitions, and appointments include Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (1982); Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation (2004); member and chairman, Judicial Inquiry & Review Commission (1990-98); cofounder and former president, George Mason American Inn of Court; adjunct professor of trial advocacy, George Mason Law School (1986-2004); past member, Boyd-Graves Conference. Judge Sheridan has also received the Carrico Professionalism Award (2000) from the Virginia State Bar Criminal Law Section. This award is presented based on the recommendations of prosecutors and defense lawyers. Judge Sheridan served as the chairman of the Virginia Model Jury Instruction Committee. Judge Sheridan received the Martin L. Kane Community Service Award. He also served as a co-author on the reference source Evidentiary Foundations with Professor Kent Sinclair.
For the twenty years before being raised to the bench, he was a partner in Siciliano Ellis Sheridan & Dyer, in Fairfax (1964-1985). During that time he served as the president of the Arlington County Bar Association (1973), was listed in Best Lawyers in American for civil litigation (1983), and was chairman of Committee on Professional Competency of the Virginia State Bar (1984-1985).
Judge Sheridan received his B.A. from Columbia University, his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and was a captain (reserve) in the U.S. Marine Corps, Active Duty 1958-1960.