ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
D. Bradley Marshall, Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, PC / Manassas
Bradley Marshall is an attorney at Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, PC, in Manassas, where he leads the firm’s white collar and criminal defense section, is co-lead for their investigations section, and practices in the municipal law and civil litigation sections. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Prince William County for over a decade, where he specialized in prosecuting criminal street gang cases, violent crimes, firearms offenses, and mental health–related cases.
Mr. Marshall serves on the Prince William County Community Services Board, which oversees mental health and behavioral health services for over half a million residents. He is in his third term as President of the Prince William County Bar Foundation, is the Chairman of the Community Criminal Justice Board, which oversees pretrial release and misdemeanor probation services, and is past-President of the Prince William County Bar Association. He also serves as Chair of the Virginia State Bar Special Committee on Bench-Bar Relations and the State Bar’s renowned Carrico Professionalism Course Faculty. He is on the legal faculty at the PWC Public Safety Academy, has lectured at Northern Virginia Community College as well as George Mason University, and regularly teaches continuing legal education courses on topics such as Constitutional Law, Mental Health Ethics, Specialty Dockets, Immigration Law, and Criminal Street Gang Laws. He is heavily involved in criminal justice reform at the local and state level, serving on the Evidence-Based Decision Making Policy Committee, as a member of the local DIVERT Committee on the mentally ill in the criminal justice system, and helped establish and implement Prince William County's Mental Health and Veterans Treatment Dockets.
Mr. Marshall received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his juris doctorate degree from Michigan State University. He is a 2013 graduate of Leadership Prince William, received the Potomac Local “Forty under 40” Award in 2014, the County Executive Award for 2015, was in the inaugural class of Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Up & Coming Lawyers” in 2016, and received the 2017 Prince William County Bar Association Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.
Annette Miller, Virginia Beach Public Defender’s Office / Virginia Beach
Annette Miller is a Senior Trial Attorney with the City of Virginia Beach. She has been a public defender from 1995 to the present and specializes in those individuals who suffer from serious mental illnesses. Her undergraduate degree is from Virginia Tech, with a double major in English and Political Science (1979-83). She has a master’s degree in English from Syracuse University and taught English at Syracuse while completing her degree requirements (1983-1985). Her law degree is from the University of Richmond (1988). She was the first law clerk for the Virginia Beach Circuit Court judges (1989-91).
Ms. Miller worked for Parker Pollard & Brown from 1991-1995, specializing in workers’ compensation and personal injury. She was awarded a Virginia Beach Human Rights Award for mental health education and advocacy in 2000. She was published in the American Bar Association’s Criminal Litigation magazine, Winter 2010, Volume 10, Number 2. The article is entitled “The Post-Adjudication ‘Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity’ Process in the State of Virginia.”
Ms. Miller has lectured extensively in the field including, but not limited to, a Virginia State Bar CLE–approved seminar for her office entitled "Handling Criminal Cases and the Mentally Ill, A Guide for Attorneys, Clients and Their Families," the Virginia State Bar's 42nd Annual Criminal Law Seminar; 2008 Regional Judge's Conference; 2012 Virginia Beach Bar Association's Seminar entitled "Representing a Client with Mental Health Issues"; the Indigent Defense Commission's Late Day Lecture Series on Mental Health Ethics (2016);Virginia CLE® Mental Health Ethics 101 in the Criminal Justice System (2017); VA CLE Ethical Representation of Mentally Ill Defendants in Criminal Cases (2021). Ms. Miller continues to lecture during the pandemic exclusively by zoom (a juvenile court CLE and a guardianship conference); VACDL's Fall 2021 (Live) lecture on mental health ethics in the "Surf's Up: New Tools and Techniques for Riding the Wave of Criminal Justice Reform" seminar.