Amy S. Owen

Amy S. Owen is a founding member of Cochran & Owen, LLC.  She was formerly a principal at Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. in the Tysons Corner office and at Richards McGettigan Reilly & West, P.C. in Alexandria, Virginia.  After graduating cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1983, she attended law school at the University of Florida, College of Law, where she graduated with honors in 1986 and was a member of the Order of the Coif.  She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.  Amy has a commercial litigation practice with substantial litigation experience involving financial institutions, employment matters, real estate, commercial disputes, insurance coverage and business torts.

Amy is a member of the Fairfax Bar Association where she served as the secretary of the Employment Law Section and as a representative appointed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on the Community Action Advisory Board.  She is a member of the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia Bar Associations, the District of Columbia Women's Bar Association, the Northern Virginia Women Attorneys Association and the American Bar Association.  In 2008 and 2009 Amy was selected as one of the Legal Elite, a project of Virginia Business magazine in cooperation with the Virginia Bar Association.

Amy has been a resident of Fairfax County since 1988.  She is a 1999 graduate of Leadership Fairfax and served on the Board of Directors.  She is currently serving as a Commissioner for the Fairfax Human Rights Commission.  Amy also serves on the Board of Directors for Alternative House, the Abused and Homeless Children’s Refuge.  She, along with other attorneys in the firm, volunteers at Legal Services of Northern Virginia in the pro bono employment law program.  She and her husband, Jack, have four children and together they support a variety of school activities in the Woodson High School pyramid.