Franklin P. Hall, Attorney

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Frank Hall is a native of Amelia Courthouse, Virginia, where he grew up on his family's farm. After graduating from Lynchburg College with a degree in business, he went on to the American University, where he enrolled in both the MBA program and the Washington College of Law.

After receiving his MBA and while completing law school, Frank became a member of the staff of U.S. Senate Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. When Humphrey became Vice-President, Frank joined the Vice -President's staff until he moved to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Following that, Frank worked for three years as an assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

In 1969, Frank and his wife, Georgetown Law School graduate Phoebe Poulterer Hall, opened a law practice at 10th and Main Streets in downtown Richmond. Phoebe Hall, the first woman trial attorney and the first woman public defender in Richmond, is a co-founder of the Richmond Women's Bar. Their law practice, Hall and Hall, now has two offices in the Richmond metro area.

Pursuing his dual interest in law and business, Frank Hall entered banking in the early 1970s, founding first a successful savings and loan and in 1986 opening Commonwealth Bank. Frank serves on the Board of the First Community Bank.

Frank Hall was elected in 1975 to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he serves as House Democratic Leader. He has served as chair of the Counties, Cities and Towns Committee and as a member of the following committees: Appropriations, Corporations, Insurance and Banking; Mining and Mineral Resources committees; and the Joint Commission on Health Care. Frank currently serves as the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Frank is a former president of the Richmond Jaycees, the Virginia Metro Jaycees, and the Richmond Area Young Democrats. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Richmond Bar Association and a member of the Virginia State Bar, and the Virginia Trial Lawyers. He has served on the boards of the National Municipal League, the Virginia Mental Health Association, Offender Aid and Restoration, and the Central Richmond Association. He is a member and an elder of the Presbyterian Church.

Among awards Frank has received are the 2001 A Best of the Best Award from the Virginia Department of Minority Business Enterprise; Richmond Area Distinguished Service Award; Outstanding Young Man of Virginia and Outstanding Young Men of America; the Lynchburg College Distinguished Alumni Award; and the Dean's Award for Distinguished Service from Washington College of Law.

Frank and Phoebe Hall are the parents of two children, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren.

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