List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia

List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia

This is a list of past and present and past justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Both Justices and Chief Justices are elected by majority vote of both houses of the General Assembly to twelve year terms. The Court was known as the Supreme Court of Appeals until 1970, when it took on its present name.

List of Justices

Chief Justices in italics.

Current Justices

* Cynthia D. Kinser, term expires January 31, 2010 cite web|url=http://www.courts.state.va.us/supreme.htm |title=Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=Supreme Court of Virginia ]
* Donald W. Lemons, term expires March 16, 2012
* "Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr.", term expires January 31, 2014
* G. Steven Agee, term expires March 1, 2015 (has been appointed to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals)
* Barbara Milano Keenan, term expires June 30, 2015
* Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., term expires August 15, 2019 (will be required to become a Senior Justice prior to expiration of his term)
* S. Bernard Goodwyn, term expires February 8, 2020

Current Senior Justices

* "Harry L. Carrico"
* Elizabeth B. Lacy
* Charles S. Russell
* Roscoe B. Stephenson, Jr.

Former Justices

* "Edmund Pendleton", 1778 - 1803 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000200 |title=Pendleton, Edmund |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr., 1779 - 1780 Fact|date=June 2008
* James Henry, 1779 - 1789 Fact|date=June 2008
* Bartholomew Dandridge, 1779 - 1785 Fact|date=June 2008
* Benjamin Waller, ? - 1785 Fact|date=June 2008
* John Tyler, Sr., 1786 - 1788 Fact|date=June 2008
* Richard Carey, ? - 1788 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Peter Lyons", 1788 - 1809 Fact|date=June 2008
* Paul Carrington, 1789 - 1807 Fact|date=June 2008
* George Wythe Fact|date=June 2008
* John Blair [ cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/blair.htm |title=John Blair |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Army ]
* William Roscoe Wilson Curl Fact|date=June 2008
* Richard Parker Fact|date=June 2008
* James Mercer, 1780 - 1793 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000644 |title=Mercer, James |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* "William Fleming", 1780 - 1824 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000196 |title=Fleming, William |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Henry Tazewell, 1793 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000107 |title=Tazewell, Henry |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Spencer Roane, 1794 - 1822 Fact|date=June 2008
* St. George Tucker, 1803 - 1811 [ cite web|url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2420 |title=Tucker, St. George |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=FJC ]
* "William H. Cabell", 1811 - 1851 [ cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html |title=C to Cadwalader |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=The Political Graveyard ]
* James Pleasants, 1811 Fact|date=June 2008
* John Coalter, 1811 - ? Fact|date=June 2008
* John W. Green, 1822 - 1834 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Francis T. Brooke", 1823 - 1851 Fact|date=June 2008
* Dabney Carr, 1824 - 1837 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.", 1831 - 1841 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000398 |title=Tucker, Henry St. George |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* William Brockenbrough, 1834 - 1838 Fact|date=June 2008
* Richard E. Parker, 1837 - 1840 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000069 |title=Parker, Richard Elliott |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Robert Stanard, 1839 - 1846 Fact|date=June 2008
* "John J. Allen", 1840 - 1865 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000132 |title=Allen, John James |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Briscoe Baldwin, 1842 - 1852 Fact|date=June 2008
* William Daniel, 1846 - 1865 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Richard C.L. Moncure", 1851 - 1865 and 1870 - 1882 Fact|date=June 2008
* Green Berry Samuels, 1852 - ? [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000028 |title=Samuels, Green Berry |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* George Hay Lee, 1854 - 1861 Fact|date=June 2008
* William J. Robertson, 1859 - 1865 Fact|date=June 2008
* Lucas P. Thompson, 1866 (elected but died prior to taking office) Fact|date=June 2008
* Alexander Rives, 1866 - 1869 [ cite web|url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2018 |title=Rives, Alexander |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=FJC ]
* William T. Joynes, 1866 - 1873 Fact|date=June 2008
* Joseph Christian 1870 - 1882 Fact|date=June 2008
* Waller Redd Staples, 1870 - 1882 [ cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanwood-starin.html |title=Index to Politicians: Stanwood to Starin |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=The Political Graveyard ]
* Francis T. Anderson, 1870 - 1883 Fact|date=June 2008
* Wood Boulden, 1872 - 1876 Fact|date=June 2008
* Edward C. Burks, 1876 - 1883 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Lunsford L. Lewis", 1882 - 1895 Fact|date=June 2008
* Robert A. Richardson, 1882 - 1895 Fact|date=June 2008
* Thomas T. Fauntleroy, 1883 - 1894 Fact|date=June 2008
* Drury A. Hinton, 1883 - 1894 Fact|date=June 2008
* Benjamin W. Lacy, 1883 - 1895 Fact|date=June 2008
* "George Moffett Harrison", 1894 - 1917 Fact|date=June 2008
* John W. Riely, 1895 - 1900 Fact|date=June 2008
* John A. Buchanan, 1895 - 1915 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001007 |title=Buchanan, John Alexander |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* "Richard H. Cardwell", 1895 - 1916 Fact|date=June 2008
* "James Keith", 1895 - 1916 Fact|date=June 2008
* Archer Allen Phlegar, 1900 - 1901 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Stafford G. Whittle", 1901 - 1919 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Joseph L. Kelly", 1914 - 1924 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Robert R. Prentis", 1916 - 1931 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Frederick W. Sims", 1917 - 1925 Fact|date=June 2008
* Martin P. Burks, 1917 - 1928 Fact|date=June 2008
* Edward W. Saunders, 1920 - 1921 [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000077 |title=Saunders, Edward Watts |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Jesse F. West, 1922 - 1929 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Preston W. Campbell", 1924 - 1946 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Richard Henry Lee Chichester", 1925 - 1930 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Henry W. Holt", 1928 - 1947 Fact|date=June 2008
* Louis S. Epes, 1929 - 1935 Fact|date=June 2008
* George L. Browning, 1930 - 1947 Fact|date=June 2008
* Herbert B. Gregory, 1930 - 1951 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Edward W. Hudgins", 1930 - 1958 Fact|date=June 2008
* Joseph W. Chinn, 1931 - 1936 Fact|date=June 2008
* "John W. Eggleston", 1935 - 1969 Fact|date=June 2008
* Claude V. Spratley, 1936 - 1967 Fact|date=June 2008
* Archibald C. Buchanan, 1946 - 1969 [cite book | last = Leslie | first = Louise B. | authorlink = | coauthors = Dr. Terry W. Mullins | title = Tazewell County | publisher = Arcadia | date = | location = | pages = 28 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Wa4ZbnjpuYEC&pg=PA28&dq=%22Archibald+C.+Buchanan%22&lr=&ei=QjJMSNihHJjSigHX5rjLCQ&sig=pBX1REp3IuUyjYtOK9NCMN5JWMY | doi = | id = | isbn = 0738542202 ]
* Abram Penn Staples, 1947 - 1951 Fact|date=June 2008
* Willis D. Miller, 1947 - 1960 Fact|date=June 2008
* Lemuel F. Smith, 1951 - 1956 Fact|date=June 2008
* Kennon C. Whittle, 1951 - 1965 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Harold Fleming Snead", 1957 - 1974 Fact|date=June 2008
* "Lawrence W. I'Anson", 1958 - 1981 Fact|date=June 2008
* Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. Fact|date=June 2008
* Richard Harding Poff [ cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000401 |title=Poff, Richard Harding |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=United States Congress ]
* Thomas C. Gordon, 1965 - 1972 Fact|date=June 2008
* Alexander Harman, 1969 - 1979 Fact|date=June 2008
* George M. Cochran, 1969 - 1987 [ cite web|url=http://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/honorary_doctoral.shtml |title=Honorary Doctoral Degrees |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=James Madison University ]
* Christian Compton, 1974 - 2006 [ cite web|url=http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?062+ful+HJ5056 |title=Joint House Resolution 5056 |accessdate=2008-06-08 |date=2006-05-10 |publisher=Virginia General Assembly ]
* William Carrington Thompson, 1980 - 1983 Fact|date=June 2008
* John Charles Thomas, 1983 - ~1989 [ cite web|url=http://www.hunton.com/bios/bio.aspx?id=14597 |title=John Charles Thomas |accessdate=2008-06-08 |publisher=Hunton & Williams ]

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