About Stephen C.
Stephen C. Price has built a career that moves between courtrooms, civic institutions and an early tour of military service. He studied at the Virginia Military Institute, earned his law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law and completed an LL.M. at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Those years set a pattern: rigorous study followed by steady public and private work.
After law school he served in the United States Army and held the rank of captain in 1973. That period in uniform is an early chapter in a professional life that returned to the law and to local institutions. He served as a substitute judge for Virginia's 20th Judicial District in 1982. The bench appointment was one of several roles that placed him in a position to shape litigation practice in the region.
He is principal at McCandlish & Lillard, P.C., a firm where he has combined private representation with public duties. The Circuit Court of Loudoun County has named him a Commissioner in Chancery, a role that involves refereeing certain complex civil matters for the court. He is admitted to practice in Virginia and is also admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His career includes long involvement in bar organizations and legal conferences. He served on the Virginia Bar Association Board of Governors from 2005 to 2008 and chaired the VBA Litigation Section from 1999 to 2000. Locally, he led the Loudoun County Bar Association as president from 1988 to 1989 and served as its treasurer from 1978 to 1980. He remains a member of the Loudoun County Bar Association and the Virginia Bar Association, and participates in the Boyd-Graves Conference and the Selden Society.
Outside the strict practice of law he has taken leadership roles in community and historical organizations. He is president of the George C. Marshall International Center in Leesburg and belongs to the Loudoun County Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee. Those positions reflect an interest in regional history and public education that runs alongside his legal work.
His résumé mixes litigation roles, court appointments and bar leadership. The line from VMI to Cambridge to the bench and back into private practice spans decades. He currently practices at McCandlish & Lillard, P.C.; he handles litigation, serves in chancery appointments and participates in appellate work in Virginia and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
