Erin Gallagher Davies has been selected to receive the prestigious 2025 American Inns of Court Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service, which honors an American Inn of Court member in practice 10 years or fewer for their excellence in public interest or pro bono activities. Davies, assistant commonwealth attorney for the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office in Prince William, Virginia, will receive the award at the American Inns of Court 2025 Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Anthony Kostelecky, chief of staff of the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Prince William County and the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park, cited Davies’s passion for reformative justice in his nomination of her for the award. In particular, he pointed to her work as his second chair on the Veteran Treatment Docket for Prince William County. Working with veterans with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, the docket uses comprehensive treatment and supervision to help veteran defendants return to their communities as productive, law-abiding people. “…Davies consistently shows compassion and empathy for both the victims of crimes and the veteran defendants,” writes Kostelecky. “Even outside the confines of the Veteran Treatment Docket and the Prince William Drug Court, she regularly works with defense attorneys to come up with creative resolutions to cases that balance accountability with rehabilitation.”

Before assuming her current position, Davies was an assistant commonwealth attorney for the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office in Fairfax, Virginia. Earlier in her career, she was a law clerk at the Leesburg, Virginia, law firm Biberaj Snow & Sinclair PC and a legal intern for the Loudon Public Defender’s Office, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the U.S. Federal Public Defender’s Office, and the Major Felony Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Davies has been a Barrister member of the George Mason American Inn of Court since 2022. She is also a member of the Prince William Bar Association and co-chairs its Young Lawyers Committee.

Davies earned her law degree from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law in 2017. She earned an undergraduate degree in constitutional studies and political science from Christopher Newport University in 2014.

The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes nearly 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.

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