Eastern Counsel

Terri has been Eastern Counsel for Wine Institute since 2008, representing California wineries on legal and policy issues before Legislatures, ABC Boards and other alcohol industry groups in seven mid-Atlantic states where she manages all policy efforts that impact taxation, distribution and shipment of California wine. Among other things, she helped to open Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to wine shipping. Terri speaks regularly at national trade meetings and conferences.

Prior to 2008, she practiced Virginia law at McCandlish Holton representing wine, utility and health care clients before the General Assembly, Administration, regulatory boards and the State Corporation Commission. In 2001 when the federal courts struck down in-state winery shipping, delivery and self-distribution privileges, Terri represented the Virginia Wineries Association in passing the first permit-based wine shipping law using Wine Institute language. In 2007 she lobbied to create the Virginia Winery Distribution Company (VWDC) to counter the loss of self-distribution. The Attorney General named her Special Counsel to establish and license VWDC. Terri received the 2009 Virginia Wine Industry “Person of the Year” award for her efforts. In 2007 she was named a “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business Magazine in the Legislative/Regulatory/Administrative Law category.