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Adrianne Bennett was appointed to the Virginia Parole Board on October 5, 2015. On January 5, 2017 she was appointed to serve as chair of the Virginia Parole Board.

Ms. Bennett has been an active member of the Virginia State Bar since 1998. Prior to her appointment to the Parole Board in 2015, she had been a solo-practitioner for 11 years while also serving part-time on the misdemeanor team at the Norfolk Public Defender’s Office. Her private practice focused primarily on domestic relations issues and criminal matters. Prior to starting her own practice, Ms. Bennett was a partner in a small law firm, after having begun her career on the juvenile team in the Virginia Beach Public Defender’s Office. She also devoted many years to teaching as an adjunct professor in the Legal Studies Program at Tidewater Community College and in a paralegal certification program at a career development school. Ms. Bennett advocated on behalf abused, neglected, and sexually exploited children as a certified Guardian ad litem.

Ms. Bennett is a native Virginian. She graduated from Virginia Tech in 1994, with a B.S. in Political Science and a minor in Sociology. She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of law in 1998.