Courtney Lynn Mills

Courtney Mills focuses her practice on family law. Her career is rooted in the belief that the law should be a tool for helping people, protecting their rights, and ensuring that everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect. Her clients are not simply cases to be managed or legal problems to be solved. She cares about understanding who they are, what they are going through, and what they want their lives and families to look like when their case is over.

Courtney strives to be a steady presence for her clients by listening carefully, explaining options clearly, and anticipating issues before they arise. Clients appreciate her attention to detail, ability to stay composed under pressure, and the personal care she brings to their representation.

Before focusing on family law and civil litigation, Courtney spent more than a decade as an attorney and advisor for the federal government and in non-profit organizations. Her extensive career spans advocating for individual rights, advising senior federal officials on some of the highest profile issues of our time, and serving as a primary legal advisor on election security and resilience at the national’s cybersecurity agency. These experiences taught her how to remain calm when the stakes are high, advocate persuasively, quickly make sense of complicated situations, and give thoughtful advice when important decisions need to be made.

She earned by J.D. from William & Mary School of Law, where she graduated in the top 15 percent of her class. She excelled as a member of the school’s moot court team winning the Federal Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Tournament, being named “Best Oralist” at the American University Weschler First Amendment Moot Court Competition, and being named a quarterfinalist at the American Constitution Society Moot Court Tournament. Courtney earned my undergraduate degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida. She has been a member of the Virginia Bar since 2011 and is also admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Outside of the office, she enjoys gardening, watching college sports, and most of all, spending time with her husband and daughter.