Chance Maginness earned his J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Politics and involved in the Student Bar Association, for which he was treasurer and chair of the school governance reform committee. He was further involved in Lambda Law Alliance.
While in law school, Chance was an extern for the Office of the University Counsel at the University of Virginia, and a summer legal fellow for Equality California, California’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization.