Donald E. Showalter

Contact Information

Email: dshowalt@wawlaw.com
Direct Line: 540 438 5359
Fax: 540 434 5502

Wharton Aldhizer and Weaver

100 South Mason Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Donald E. Showalter concentrates his legal work in the commercial/corporate and probate areas, serving as counsel to numerous local corporations, with particular interest in the law of agricultural cooperatives. Mr. Showalter had the unique opportunity to file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Mennonite Church in Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the First Amendment religious freedom of the Amish. He began his career at Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC in 1965.

Practice Focus

• Agricultural Cooperatives
• Business and Commercial Law
• Business Litigation
• Corporate and Tax, Securities, Commercial Transactions
• Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations
• Real Estate Law
• Wills, Estates, Trusts and Estate Administration

Education

• Eastern Mennonite University (B.A., 1962)
• University of Virginia (J.D., 1965)

Admitted to Practice

• Virginia and Fourth Circuit Court (1965)
• United States Supreme Court (1971)

Memberships & Awards

• Virginia's Legal Elite, Virginia Business Magazine
• Best Lawyers in America
• Super Lawyers Magazine
• AV Rated with Martindale-Hubbell
• Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association
• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Law Foundation