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Hudgins v. Wright (1806) was a freedom suit decided in the favor of the slave Jackey Wright by the Virginia Supreme Court (then called the Court of Appeals). She had sued for freedom for herself and her two children based on her claim of descent from Indian women. Indian slavery had been prohibited in Virginia since 1705.
This 2-year-old female, Haze, is one of 11 cats removed from a Mason Dixon Road home in February 2023 in a Washington County animal cruelty case. Haze was adopted and has a new home.
Gammiel Poindexter: [40] First African American (female) judge in the Sixth Judicial District (Brunswick County, et al.; 1995) Tania M.L. Saylor: [48] First female of color to serve as a Judge of the Fairfax County Circuity Court (2022) Lee Lovett (1947): [49] [50] First female lawyer in Winchester, Virginia, Frederick County, Virginia
Born at "Epping Forest" near Nuttsville, Virginia, the home of his maternal grandfather Col. Joseph Ball (also a maternal grandfather to George Washington).His father, also Joseph Chinn, had married Elizabeth Griffin, one of Col. Ball's daughters, and represented Lancaster County in the Virginia House of Delegates alongside Henry Towles from 1792 until 1794, when he was elected to the Virginia ...
In the seven years since the ordinance was enacted, the county’s animal shelter has averaged around 350 cats a year, a decline of 85% from before the community cat program was introduced.
Cynthia Dinah Kinser (born December 20, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Kinser was elected by the Virginia General Assembly to her first 12-year term to the Virginia Supreme Court in 1998, after being appointed by Governor George Allen to fill a 1997 vacancy. Kinser was elected to a ...
Thomas Peter Mann (born 1965) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and former circuit court judge of Virginia's 19th Judicial Circuit in Fairfax County.He was elected by the Virginia General Assembly to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia for a 12-year term commencing on August 1, 2022.
Jane Marum Roush (born September 24, 1956) is an American lawyer and judge who served as an interim Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 2015 to 2016.. On July 27, 2015, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced his appointment of Roush to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. effective July 31, 2015. [1]