Michele McKinnon

Practice Areas

The chair of McGuireWoods’ nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations practice team, Michele routinely represents many public charities, major colleges and universities, supporting organizations, large private foundations, and charitable trusts on a variety of federal tax and governance matters. She concentrates much of her time on structuring planned gifts to charitable organizations, including the use of charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable gift annuities and conservation easements. Michele’s work also focuses on estate planning and estate and trust administration, handling the administration of large complex estates, fiduciary income tax matters, fiduciary litigation, and risk management for corporate trust departments. A Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Michele served as Chair of its Charitable Planning & Exempt Organizations Committee and also as its Virginia State Chair. Michele is a member of the Fiduciary Income Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and also is a former chair of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Virginia State Bar.