May 2, 2025
Eva N. Juncker Receives the 2025 Dunnaville Award
Eva N. Juncker of Cipriani & Werner was selected to receive the 2025 Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award, given by the VSB Diversity Conference to a lawyer who exemplifies the conference’s goal of encouraging diversity and inclusion in the bar, the judiciary, and the legal profession.
Juncker has practiced family law for 25 years, handling complex, multi-jurisdictional, and LGBTQ+ nontraditional matters such as divorce, custody, support, equitable distribution, post-divorce modifications, partition actions, transgender issues, pre- and postnuptial and settlement agreements.
Juncker was nominated by Andrea L. Bridgeman, the proprietor of Bridgeman Associates. Bridgeman says Juncker’s name was the first one to spring to mind when she saw the criteria for the award. “There may be other deserving candidates, but few more deserving,” said Bridgeman.
As a member of the VSB, Juncker pushed to establish the VSB Diversity Conference, standing it up and pushing it forward. “In this and so many other ways, she embodies the attributes that the award is intended to recognize,” Bridgeman says.
In addition to her work with the Diversity Conference, Juncker has volunteered with several other VSB entities, including the VSB Council, the Executive Committee, the Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee, and the Access to Legal Services Committee. She is currently chair of the Better Annual Meeting Committee.
Peter C. Burnett, principal at Burnett & Williams, PC, also nominated Juncker, saying she has devoted a remarkable number of hours to pro bono work and to representing clients with LGBTQ+ issues. “She [was] a qualified guardian ad litem for more than a decade,” Burnett says.
Juncker was also a featured speaker, along with other prominent attorneys and jurists, in a two-hour film produced by the Senior Lawyers Conference titled Civility and Professionalism in a Successful Litigation Practice—Mentorship from the Bench and Bar.
Burnett says it was no surprise to hear her explain and encourage the many benefits of employing dignity, respect, and the utmost civility for all parties and other participants in the judicial system. “Eva Juncker lives, breathes, and advocates the many benefits that diversity of all kinds brings, not only to our Virginia legal community, but also to our society at large.”
The Dunnaville Award, which commemorates the life of civil rights leader Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. and his unceasing devotion to improving diversity and equality in the Commonwealth, will be presented at the Diversity Conference Lunch on Friday, June 13, at the VSB Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach.