Melissa W. Robinson is Glenn Robinson Cathey Memmer & Skaff ’s most senior trial litigator, focusing her practice on civil litigation. She graduated from The University of Virginia and William & Mary Law School. Over her more than 30 years of practice, she has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts across the Commonwealth involving wrongful death, trucking, products liability, professional liability, and insurance coverage matters. She has acted as an investigator for local government clients on employment-related claims and routinely provides advice to individuals, businesses, and insurers on contract and insurance issues. Melissa began her practice in 1988, joining the law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore where she became partner in 1994. In 2002, she joined Glenn Robinson Cathey Memmer & Skaff PLC, a firm specializing exclusively in trial litigation and related practice areas.

Melissa is a member of the Virginia State Bar Client Protection Fund Board and a former member of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board and Board of the Roanoke Bar Association. She is also a Board Member, past President and Master of the Ted Dalton Chapter of the American Inns of Court. Melissa is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Melissa was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1988. In 2019, she was named a Virginia Super Lawyer in the field of Insurance Coverage. She has been a Boyd Graves Conference Member since 2012 and a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of American since 2015, the Roanoke Law Foundation since 2014, and the Virginia Law Foundation since 2012. Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly awarded her a Women of Achievement in 2011.