Vanessa Hicks

Vanessa E. Hicks is an Associate Attorney at Marks & Harrison, focusing on personal injury law in Richmond, Virginia. Her background includes extensive experience as both a criminal defense attorney and in personal injury law, with prior roles at law firms and public defender offices.

Hicks earned her Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University School of Law, a Master of Divinity from the Samuel D. Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of William and Mary. She received AVVO's Client's Choice Award in 2021 and was named by The National Trial Lawyers as one of the year's top 100 trial attorneys in 2014. She is an active member of the Old Dominion Bar Association, serving as Secretary for the 2024-26 term.