Virginia “Ginny” Whitener is a Milberg Senior Associate where she primarily practices in the area of consumer class action litigation.

A Virginia native, Ms. Whitener attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she graduated early with a Bachelor of Political Theory and Religious Studies.

After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Ms. Whitener moved to Knoxville to attend the University of Tennessee College of Law. She graduated cum laude in 2020 with a concentration in Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. While in law school, Ms. Whitener was selected as the Tennessee Bar Association’s Hastings Writing Competition winner and her paper, “Protecting the Jefferson National Forest,” was published in the Environmental Law Section’s Newsletter.

She was a member of the National Environmental Moot Court team for which she received the Ogden & Sullivan Best Brief Award for her work on the team’s appellate brief. She also was selected by her peers to serve as Chair for the College of Law’s intramural moot court competition, “Advocates’ Prize,” where she wrote a complex and balanced problem that was argued by students in front of a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges.

Ms. Whitener served on the executive board of the Tennessee Law Review as an Acquisitions Editor. She earned CALI awards for achieving the highest grade in Trial Practice, Environmental Law & Policy, and Environmental Justice Seminar.

Following her passage of a pandemic-postponed bar exam, Ms. Whitener joined Milberg in 2020. She later passed the federal bar exam and was admitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in 2023. Her practice is focused on mislabeling, consumer product, and automotive class action litigation.