Chilton Davis Varner became King & Spalding’s first female litigation partner in 1983 and the first female partner to serve on the firm’s Management Committee in 1996.  She is the senior partner in the firm’s product liability practice.  She has lectured and published frequently in the legal and medical literature on issues relevant to her practice, including tort liability, international law, attorney-client privilege and pharmaceutical law. 
 

Ms. Varner serves on the Board of Trustees of Emory University.  She is an officer and member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Symphony.  Ms. Varner also serves on the board of publicly-held Brown & Brown Insurance.  In 2007, she received the Lettie Pate Whitehead Award from the Board of Directors Network, honoring achievements and accomplishments of Georgia women serving on corporate boards of directors.
 

Ms. Varner and her husband Morgan, also a lawyer in Atlanta, have a daughter, Ashley Varner, who is an oncology social worker at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.