Renee Mims

Renee is an attorney at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences where her work involves matters relating to​ criminal law, legislation, public health matters, employment law, and more. Renee’s career experience includes working as​ judicial law clerk at the D.C. trial court and practicing family law and domestic violence law where she advised​ and represented survivors of domestic violence in civil protection order cases and domestic relations cases​ including divorce.

Renee’s leadership roles include ​having served as President of the Greater Washington​ Area Chapter, Women Lawyers Division of the National Bar Association (GWAC)​, Chair of GWAC’s charitable arm, the GWAC Foundation, Inc. which provides book and bar scholarships​ to law school students and graduates, and sponsors law students through its Legal Internship Placement​ Program (L.I.P.P.) to provide paid internships​, Board Member of the Washington Bar Association​ and ​NBA Region XII Director.

To name a few of Renee’s achievements, she received the GWAC Bar Association’s Rising Star Award; the​ NBA Women Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Woman Lawyer Award; ​and the NBA’s Centennial 40 Under 40 Award. Renee earned her B.A. from Howard University and her J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia​ David A. Clarke School of Law.