Leroy F. Millette, Jr.

Leroy F. Millette, Jr. is a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Justice Millette is presently serving as a pro tempore member of the Court, having been appointed to that position by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. He must be confirmed for a full 12 year term by the Virginia General Assembly in 2009. Millette previously served for less than one year on the Court of Appeals of Virginia, also having been appointed by Gov. Kaine and then being subsequently confirmed by the General Assembly. Prior to that, he served as a judge of the Circuit Court of Prince William County, Virginia, in which position he presided over the capital murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Beltway Sniper. Millette confirmed the jury's sentence of death of Muhammad. Millette also was involved in some of the proceedings of the Lorena Bobbitt trial in 1993. Prior to serving on the Circuit Court, Judge Millette was a General District Court Judge, making him one of only three Virginia jurists, along with Justice Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr. and Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, to have served at all four levels of courts in Virginia. He received his under graduate degree from the College of William and Mary and his law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at William and Mary. Justice Millette is married to M. Elizabeth O’Brien Millette and they have two children, Lauren Elizabeth Millette and LeRoy F. Millette III.

Gov. Kaine appointed Chesterfield Circuit Court Judge Cleo F. Powell to fill Millette's seat on the Court of Appeals. Powell is the first African-American woman to hold a seat on an appellate court in Virginia. Millette was sworn in on September 5, 2008.

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* [http://alumni.wm.edu/magazine/spgsum_2004/alumnews_1.shtml College of William & Mary profile]
* [http://www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=548 Official announcement of Millette's appointment] - Office of the Governor of Virginia