C. DUANE CLOSE II

C. Duane Close II is a graduate of Regent University School of Law (RUSL), where he was elected Chair of the RUSL Black Law Students Association (BLSA), served as a board member for multiple student organizations, was selected as the South Hampton Roads Bar Association Law Student of the Year in 2023, and was honored as the BLSA “Paving the Way for Excellence” Young Alumni of the Year in 2025. He currently serves as an International Executive Board Member at Large of Phi Alpha Delta, an international law fraternity. Prior to joining Reynolds Law Group, he served as a Judicial Intern for the Suffolk General District Court and as a Legal Intern and Apprentice for the Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney’s Office, before his employment there as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Duane is a native of Cando, North Dakota. He graduated cum laude from MidAmerica Nazarene University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a minor in Political Science. He served twenty years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, flying the S-3B Viking and the F/A-18F Super Hornet. During his military career, he completed five carrier deployments and one ground deployment as a Fires Support Officer and Forward Air Controller with a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force. He amassed approximately 2,500 flight hours and 700 arrested landings aboard four different aircraft carriers on both coasts and retired with the rank of Commander in 2020.