Cynthia Eppes Hudson (born 1959) is an American lawyer who serves as Chief Deputy Attorney General for the

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. A native of Crewe,

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, Hudson graduated from

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in 1981; she completed her J.D. degree at the

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of the

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in 1987. Initially upon graduation she joined the Richmond law firm McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe; choosing a path of civic service instead she became deputy city attorney for

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in 1996, and was appointed city attorney in 2006. She was named deputy attorney general by Mark R. Herring in December 2013, becoming the first African-American woman to hold the post. Hudson serves as an adjunct faculty member at the College of William and Mary and the

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. In 2013 she was elected president of the Local Government Attorneys of Virginia. In 2012 Virginia Lawyers Weekly named her one of its Influential Women in Virginia; in 2015 the Virginia Law Foundation named her a Fellow in recognition of her excellence in the law and public service. She was named one of the

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in 2017.

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