Anne P Donohue

Ms. Donohue is a trial litigator at a boutique family law firm in Leesburg, Virginia. After graduating summa cum laude with departmental honors, she attended law school with the goal of becoming a prosecutor. She clerked for the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts and then for the Honorable Ariane D. Vuono of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Ms. Donohue joined the Middlesex District Attorney's Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2007 as an appellate prosecutor, where she wrote dozens of briefs and presented numerous, successful oral arguments addressing a wide range of issues and crimes.

In 2014, Ms. Donohue joined the US Department of Justice, National Security Division. As an attorney advisor and later as Deputy Section Chief, Ms. Donohue wrote and supervised briefs and memoranda regarding the handling and use of information obtained pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA"). Ms. Donohue was detailed for two years to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as an Associate General Counsel where she continued to provide advice about FISA and other issues of importance to the U.S. Intelligence Community arising out of both criminal and civil litigation.

Ms. Donohue returned to DOJ in 2020 as an appellate attorney in the Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation – Appellate Section. There Ms. Donohue wrote briefs and presented oral arguments in various US Circuit Courts of Appeal defending certain decisions on applications for immigration benefits by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

Ms. Donohue successfully ran for the at-large seat on the Loudoun County School Board and was sworn in as a Member of that elected body on January 2, 2024. She lives in the Leesburg area with her spouse of 13 years, two kids, and a houseful of pets.