Meet Joseph Buxton and Virginia Brown

Meet Joseph Buxton and Virginia Brown

Joseph T. "Chip" Buxton III is the founder and President of Joseph T. Buxton III, P.C., a Professional Law Corporation. Formerly the Associate General Council and Corporate Attorney for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, he has been in private practice since 1978. Mr. Buxton and his staff specialize exclusively on wills, trusts and other estate planning instruments as well as asset protection, medicaid planning, and elder care issues. Mr. Buxton has been designated a certified elder law attorney by the National Law Foundation.

A native of Newport News, Mr. Buxton received his B.A. from Denison University (Ohio) and his J.D. from the Marshall Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary. He is also a graduate of the Navy's Officer Candidate School and the U.S. Naval School of Justice and holds the rank of Commander USNR (Ret.). He has served as President of the Tidewater Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and President of the Peninsula Estate Planning Council. He is currently a member of the Virginia Bar, Florida Bar, Financial Planning Association, Middle Peninsula Bar Association, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He has also been appointed commissioner in Chancery by the Circuit Court of Middlesex County.

In 1994, Governor Allen appointed Mr. Buxton as Escheator for Middlesex County, a post he held until 1996. He has served as an adjunct Law Professor at the Regent University School of Law, teaching Advanced Estate Planning.

Mr. Buxton and his wife, Mary Wakefield Buxton, a writer and columnist, live in Urbanna, Virginia. Their son, George P. Wakefield Buxton, is a graduate from Regent Law School and the University of Miami Masters Program in estate Planning. He is presently Trust Counsel for Securian Financial Network for the East Coast and contributing editor of our newsletter The Buxton Bulletin. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is in historic preservation in Baltimore, Maryland.


VIRGINIA E. BROWN

Ms. Ginny Brown joined the firm in January 2004, bringing with her a valuable diverse background. She graduated from George Mason School of Law in Arlington, VA in May 2002. During her second and third years of law school, Ginny was the President of the Woman's Law Association, the Co-Coordinator of the New Student Orientation and the Coordinator of the Student Mentor Program. She received the Ann Southard Murphy and Cornelius F. Murphy Tuition Assistance Award based on both her scholastic and extracurricular contributions to the law school.

Ginny also volunteered for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, which provides state and federal tax preparation assistance for low income individuals and families.

While attending law school, Ginny worked for Roeder and Associates, the City Attorneys for Fairfax, Virginia and for the School of Law. She also participated in two internship programs, working with an Estate Planning firm and with the Honorable Leslie Alden in the Fairfax Court.

After graduating from George Mason and prior to joining the firm, Ginny was a law clerk in the Delaware Family Court in Wilmington, Delaware with the Honorable Aida Waserstein and the Honorable Barbara D. Crowell. Judge Waserstein handles civil cases dealing with divorce, property division, child custody, support and alimony issues. Judge Crowell works with at-risk children, presiding over dependency and neglect hearings and termination of parental rights trials, and is also assigned a juvenile criminal docket.

Ginny is a native of Virginia, born and raised in Melfa on the Eastern Shore. She graduated Cum Laude, earning her Bachelor of Science from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, with a degree in Early Childhood Education and a minor in Special Education. After teaching second grade for two years, she moved to Virginia Beach, where she sold new home construction for five years and obtained her Real Estate Broker's license. Ginny was also the Catering Director for Taste Unlimited for five years and worked part time as a catering supervisor for Cuisine and Company for many years. Prior to her decision to attend law school full time, Ginny was employed at Atlantic Shores Retirement Community in Virginia Beach, where she aided the buyers from contract to closing and through the move-in process.

Ginny is managing attorney for the firm's Yorktown office and her primary concentration and area of expertise at Joseph T. Buxton III, P.C. is in Revocable Living Trust, Special Needs Trust, Disability Planning and Elder Law.