From a young age, Nicole M. Thurston learned to be versatile, having lived abroad in Spain and Germany with her family while her father served as a U.S. Army Officer. Her mother, a native of Spain, passed on her native tongue, Spanish, to her daughter.

It was those bilingual skills that landed Ms. Thurston a job after law school representing a Spanish-speaking client in a divorce proceeding. She served as co-chair to opposing council, Mahoney & Richmond’s Reeves W. Mahoney and Andrew T. Richmond. Less than 36 months later, they would be working on the same team.

Ms. Thurston's areas of expertise include cases of divorce, support, custody and equitable distribution, same-sex adoption and agency and parent-placement adoption in general, plus pre- and post-marital contracts.

After graduating from Virginia Wesleyan University with Outstanding Senior Awards in both of her majors, Political Science and Spanish (she also recently finished her term on the VWU Alumni Council), Ms. Thurston earned her law degree from Regent University School of Law, where she co-founded Regent’s Hispanic Law Student Association.