Virginia F. Coleman is a partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP, specializing in estate planning and fiduciary income taxation. She graduated from Radcliffe College (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), and from Harvard Law School (cum laude). She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of its Fiduciary Income Tax and International Estate Planning Committees and a member and former chair of its Employee Benefits in Estate Planning Committee. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and an academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. She is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America and has been listed in prior editions since 1991; she was named Estate Planner of the Year by the Boston Estate Planning Council in 2002 and in 2008 was one of four recipients of the First Annual MCLE Scholar Mentor Award awarded by Massachusetts Continuing Education. She has frequently lectured on estate planning topics both
locally and nationally.