In Memorium · A Tribute to our Former Partner Jane Glenn

Our dear friend and one of our firm’s founding partners, Jane Siobhan Glenn, passed away on November 20, 2007 after a long and heroic battle with cancer.

 

Jane was a graduate of the College of William & Mary and of the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. She was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1983 and served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Jackson L. Kiser of the United State District Court for the Western District of Virginia. She joined the law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore where she advanced to partner before forming her own firm Fishwick Jones & Glenn. Thereafter, in 1984, she was endorsed by the Roanoke City Bar Association for a vacancy on the 23rd Judicial Circuit for a Circuit Court judgeship.

 

Jane was in active practice with Glenn Robinson & Cathey. She served on the Executive Committee of the Virginia State Bar, as well as the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, as well as Chapter President of the Virginia Women Attorney’s Association. She was currently serving as a Master of the Ted Dalton American Inn of Court.

 

Her community involvement and volunteer activities included serving in the Virginia Bar Association Mentor Program for many years; as a Volunteer Teacher for CITY Schools; as a past member of the Board of Directors of the YWCA and a past member of the Legal Aid Society of the Roanoke Valley. Jane was a mentor to countless attorneys now in practice in Roanoke and enjoyed an exceptional reputation across the Commonwealth of Virginia as an advocate for her clients and professional in the finest sense of the word. She is terribly missed by her law partners, her best friend, Melissa Robinson, her family, friends and colleagues.