Mary S. Meade, Esq.

Mary S. Meade, Esq., is the President of the Law Offices of Mary S. Meade, and Executive Director of the Marriage and Family Recovery Programs (Marriage & Family Recovery website) . She is co-author of Whose FBI (Open Court) and the forthcoming Conflict Resolution in Faith and Reason: How to Have an Undamnably Good Fight!

MARY S. MEADE, ESQ.

Born in New York City, Mrs. Meade moved to Virginia in the 1970’s where she raised her two daughters. As an attorney and mediator, Mrs. Meade is the President of her law firm, the Law Offices of Mary S. Meade which has handled a broad range of civil litigation cases from product liability, professional malpractice, corporate law, tort law, and family law for clients including the Commonwealth of Virginia, Goodyear, the Diocese of Arlington and others.

Mrs. Meade is also the Executive Director of the Marriage and Family Recovery Programs which she co-founded in 1985 with the late Monsignor Richard Burke of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. Both believed that too many attorneys do nothing to try to save the broken marriages and families that come before the divorce courts. These faith-based programs take a three-tiered approach to personal growth and reconciliation, and require the participants to work with a mediator to learn new communication and dispute resolution techniques, as well as with a Mental Health Counselor and a Spiritual Advisor.

Mrs. Meade is also the Executive Director of the Natural Law Study Center of the Diocese of Arlington, a voluntary organization dedicated to promoting a dialogue on objective truth and natural law.

A former university professor, Mrs. Meade has her Doctoral degree in Law, a Masters Degree in Public Administration, and a Master’s Degree in Catholic Theology with an emphasis in Sacred Scripture.

Mrs. Meade is co-author of Whose FBI?, published by Open Court Publishing Company, and “Conflict Resolution in Faith and Reason: How to Have an Undamnably Good Fight!” to be published this year. Mrs. Meade has also been a columnist or contributor for a variety of publications including Washington Technology, Crime Control Digest, Corporate Security, Arlington Catholic Herald, Sign Magazine, The Virginian, and CatholicExchange.com.

She is a professed member of the Immaculate Conception Chapter, Third Order of Preachers (Dominican laity.)

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