The Post reports
“But coming from somebody like him, it meant a great deal to me just to be able to have that conversation,” said Hawkins, who at the time worked as a legislative aide to then-council member Muriel E. Bowser.
Hawkins was one of many who remembered Valentine’s generosity, intellect and mentorship as they mourned the D.C. lawyer who died Friday of covid-19. Valentine — a longtime lawyer in the D.C. Attorney General’s Office who later worked as a legal adviser to Mayor Bowser — was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday.
Valentine, 66, is the fourth person to die of the novel coronavirus in the District.
Those who worked with Valentine described a stellar attorney who knew the city and its laws. Valentine, who went on to Harvard Law School from a small historically black university in Alabama, dedicated a long career to public service, and mentored young lawyers.
