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HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 501 Offered February 25, 2023 Celebrating the life of Michael Lamont Perkins. ---------- Patron-- McGuire ---------- Unanimous consent to introduce ----------

WHEREAS, Michael Lamont Perkins of Richmond, a respected attorney and a beloved husband and father, died on February 19, 2023; and

WHEREAS, Michael Perkins earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Humanities and Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; and

WHEREAS, Michael Perkins continued his education at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia; and

WHEREAS, while earning his law degree, Michael Perkins served as a legal fellow of the Council of the District of Columbia, supported the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, and represented clients in an immigration and human rights clinic as a student attorney; and

WHEREAS, Michael Perkins subsequently worked as a contract attorney for Capital One and was responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating, structuring, interpreting, and executing a wide range of contractual documents; and

WHEREAS, in 2017, Michael Perkins joined the U.S. Government Accountability Office as an analyst, where he planned and executed complex legal and policy audits of multi-agency programs and the internal operations of individual government agencies; and

WHEREAS, Michael Perkins also served the Commonwealth and the Louisa County community as an assistant Commonwealth’s attorney; and

WHEREAS, Michael Perkins will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by his wife, Taylor; children, Mila and Mason; and numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Michael Lamont Perkins; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Michael Lamont Perkins as an expression of the House of Delegates’ respect for his memory.