J. Randall Minchew
Managing Shareholder
Land Use & Zoning | Loudoun Office
Randy, the managing shareholder of the firm’s Loudoun office, has been with the firm since 1998. He has successfully represented a number of clients in obtaining the necessary approvals for a variety of cases, including major residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects. A Leesburg resident, Randy has been deeply involved in a number of state and local government and community service activities in Loudoun County and the Town of Leesburg. Randy is a leader and Life Director of the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, which was founded in part by his father, the late John R. Minchew, founder and president of the Minchew Corporation, a leading Northern Virginia homebuilder. For six years, Randy served in the Virginia General Assembly representing the citizens of Loudoun, Clarke, and Frederick Counties in the House of Delegates, and helped craft landmark legislation in 2013 that funded the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to become the region’s preeminent force in building new roads and transit systems. Randy has served on the authority since 2013 as a voting member.
Additional Practice Areas
- Eminent Domain
- Regulatory Takings & Vested Rights
- Legislative Affairs
- Virginia State Bar
- Loudoun County Bar Association, Former President
- Virginia Bar Association
- AV Rated; Top Rated – AV Lawyer in Estate Planning, Martindale-Hubbell
- Voted among the “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business Magazine
- Recognized as one of “Virginia’s Top Rated Lawyers” by Law.com
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Land Use & Zoning, Washington D.C., 2005-2019
- Loudoun County Rural Economic Development Task Force, “The 200,000-Acre Solution: Supporting and Enhancing a Rural Economy for Loudoun’s 21st Century” (1998)
- Lecturer, United States and Virginia Constitutional Law
- “On Vested Rights to Land Use and Development,” 46 Washington and Lee Law Review 373 (1989)
- Numerous CLE seminar papers on land use law, vested rights, and regulatory takings
- Loudoun County Finance Board, Member
- Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, Member
- Loudoun County Boy Scouts, Chairman, Scoutmaster, Troop 998, Leesburg, VA
- Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, Chairman
- Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, Life Director
- Inova Loudoun Hospital, Former member of the Board of Trustees
- Shenandoah University, Former member of the Board of Trustees
- Washington & Lee University School of Law, Law Council
- Law Clerk to the Honorable A. Christian Compton, Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia (1984–85)
- Counselor and Advisor to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell
- Member, Virginia House of Delegates, 10th District