Dinah L. Rainey

Practice Areas

• Divorce
• Alimony and Separate Maintenance
• Child Custody, Visitation and Support
• Legitimation and Paternity
• Adoptions

Admitted

• Georgia, 1993; California, 1997

Education

• University of California Berkeley School of Law, J.D.
• Golden Gate University, M.S., Human Resources Management
• Southern University and A&M College, B.S., Sociology (magna cum laude)

Memberships

• State Bar of Georgia
• State Bar of California
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Accomplishments

• Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), United States Army, 2006
• American Bar Association’s Army Young Lawyer of the Year, 1997-1998
• Honor Graduate, United States Army Judge Advocate Officer’s Basic Course, 1993
• Female Athlete of the Year, Fort Eustis, VA, 1989
• United States Army Airborne School, 1987

History

Dinah served on active duty in the United States Army for more than 20 years. While in the military, she practiced law in several areas, including family law, estate planning, employment and labor law, landlord/tenant law, consumer law, military law, and criminal law. She also served as a senior military prosecutor and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the Department of Justice. She has prosecuted felony criminal cases in military and civilian criminal courts. Since retiring from the military in 2006, Dinah has exclusively practiced in the area of family and domestic relations law.