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This is a list of past and present judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court's name was the Supreme Court of Appeals until it was changed in 1971. [1] Members were titled Judge until a 1928 constitutional amendment changed the title to Justice and designated the presiding member Chief Justice. [2]
The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level city and county circuit courts , as well as the criminal law , family law and administrative law cases that are initially appealed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia .
Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Southampton County native, Goodwyn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1983. [2] He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia’s School of Law in 1986, where he was an editor for the Virginia Tax Review, a member of the Raven Society, and received the Ritter Award for honor, character and integrity.
William Cleveland Mims (born June 20, 1957) is an American jurist and former senior justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia. He is a former member of the Virginia General Assembly and Attorney General of Virginia. He is the second person in Virginia history to serve in these three offices. [1]
John Blair was born in Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, in 1732, to Mary (Monro) (1726–1768) and her merchant and politician husband, John Blair.They had a large family, with ten or twelve children by various accounts, and John was the fourth child, and the eldest surviving son.
For those who have served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, United States. Pages in category "Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
However, Hassell did not sit in his Court's final session in January 2011, and on February 9, 2011, the court announced his death. [4] Hassell's body lay in state February 11 in the Rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol, his casket draped with the flag of Virginia. He was the first African–American person in Virginia to be accorded that honor.