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, 2022 [1]
- Donald W. Lemons, term expires March 16, 2012 [1]
- Leroy F. Millette, Jr., term expires January 31, 2021 [1]
- S. Bernard Goodwyn, term expires February 8, 2020 [1]
- William C. Mims, term expires March 31, 2022 [1]
- Elizabeth A. McClanahan, term expires July 31, 2023 [1]
- Cleo E. Powell, term expires July 31, 2023 [1]
Current Senior Justices
Former Justices
- Edmund Pendleton, 1778 - 1803 [2]
- Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr., 1779 - 1780
- James Henry, 1779 - 1789
- Bartholomew Dandridge, 1779 - 1785
- Benjamin Waller, ? - 1785
- John Tyler, Sr., 1786 - 1788
- Richard Carey, ? - 1788
- Peter Lyons, 1788 - 1809
- Paul Carrington, 1789 - 1807
- George Wythe
- John Blair [3]
- William Roscoe Wilson Curl
- Richard Parker
- James Mercer, 1780 - 1793 [4]
- William Fleming, 1780 - 1824 [5]
- Henry Tazewell, 1793 [6]
- Spencer Roane, 1794 - 1822
- St. George Tucker, 1803 - 1811 [7]
- William H. Cabell, 1811 - 1851 [8]
- James Pleasants, 1811
- John Coalter, 1811 - ?
- John W. Green, 1822 - 1834
- Francis T. Brooke, 1823 - 1851
- Dabney Carr, 1824 - 1837
- Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., 1831 - 1841 [9]
- William Brockenbrough, 1834 - 1838
- Richard E. Parker, 1837 - 1840 [10]
- Robert Stanard, 1839 - 1846
- John J. Allen, 1840 - 1865 [11]
- Briscoe Baldwin, 1842 - 1852
- William Daniel, 1846 - 1865
- Richard C. L. Moncure, 1851–1865 and 1870 - 1882
- Green Berry Samuels, 1852 - ? [12]
- George Hay Lee, 1854 - 1861
- William J. Robertson, 1859 - 1865
- Lucas P. Thompson, 1866 (elected but died prior to taking office)
- Alexander Rives, 1866 - 1869 [13]
- William T. Joynes, 1866 - 1873
- Joseph Christian 1870 - 1882
- Waller Redd Staples, 1870 - 1882 [14]
- Francis T. Anderson, 1870 - 1883
- Wood Boulden, 1872 - 1876
- Edward C. Burks, 1876 - 1883
- Lunsford L. Lewis, 1882 - 1895
- Robert A. Richardson, 1882 - 1895
- Thomas T. Fauntleroy, 1883 - 1894
- Drury A. Hinton, 1883 - 1894
- Benjamin W. Lacy, 1883 - 1895
- George Moffett Harrison, 1894 - 1917
- John W. Riely, 1895 - 1900
- John A. Buchanan, 1895 - 1915 [15]
- Richard H. Cardwell, 1895 - 1916
- James Keith, 1895 - 1916
- Archer Allen Phlegar, 1900 - 1901
- Stafford G. Whittle, 1901 - 1919
- Joseph L. Kelly, 1914 - 1924
- Robert R. Prentis, 1916 - 1931
- Frederick W. Sims, 1917 - 1925
- Martin P. Burks, 1917 - 1928
- Edward W. Saunders, 1920 - 1921 [16]
- Jesse F. West, 1922 - 1929
- Preston W. Campbell, 1924 - 1946
- Richard Henry Lee Chichester, 1925 - 1930
- Henry W. Holt, 1928 - 1947
- Louis S. Epes, 1929 - 1935
- George L. Browning, 1930 - 1947
- Herbert B. Gregory, 1930 - 1951
- Edward W. Hudgins, 1930 - 1958
- Joseph W. Chinn, 1931 - 1936
- John W. Eggleston, 1935 - 1969
- Claude V. Spratley, 1936 - 1967
- Archibald C. Buchanan, 1946 - 1969 [17]
- Abram Penn Staples, 1947 - 1951
- Willis D. Miller, 1947 - 1960
- Lemuel F. Smith, 1951 - 1956
- Kennon C. Whittle, 1951 - 1965
- Harold Fleming Snead, 1957 - 1974
- Lawrence W. I'Anson, 1958 - 1981
- Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.
- Richard Harding Poff [18]
- Thomas C. Gordon, 1965 - 1972
- Alexander Harman, 1969 - 1979
- George M. Cochran, 1969 - 1987 [19]
- Christian Compton, 1974 - 2006 [20]
- William Carrington Thompson, 1980 - 1983
- John Charles Thomas, 1983 - ~1989 [21]
- G. Steven Agee, 2003–2008
- Barbara Milano Keenan 1991–2010
- Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr.
- Roscoe B. Stephenson, Jr. [1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia". Supreme Court of Virginia. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080511140206/http://www.courts.state.va.us/supreme.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Pendleton, Edmund". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000200. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "John Blair". United States Army. http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/blair.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Mercer, James". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000644. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Fleming, William". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000196. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Tazewell, Henry". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000107. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Tucker, St. George". FJC. http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2420. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "C to Cadwalader". The Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Tucker, Henry St. George". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000398. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Parker, Richard Elliott". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000069. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Allen, John James". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000132. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Samuels, Green Berry". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000028. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Rives, Alexander". FJC. http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2018. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Index to Politicians: Stanwood to Starin". The Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanwood-starin.html. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Buchanan, John Alexander". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001007. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Saunders, Edward Watts". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000077. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ Leslie, Louise B.; Dr. Terry W. Mullins. Tazewell County. Arcadia. pp. 28. ISBN 0738542202. http://books.google.com/books?id=Wa4ZbnjpuYEC&pg=PA28&dq=%22Archibald+C.+Buchanan%22&lr=&ei=QjJMSNihHJjSigHX5rjLCQ&sig=pBX1REp3IuUyjYtOK9NCMN5JWMY.
- ^ "Poff, Richard Harding". United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000401. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Honorary Doctoral Degrees". James Madison University. http://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/honorary_doctoral.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "Joint House Resolution 5056". Virginia General Assembly. 2006-05-10. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?062+ful+HJ5056. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
- ^ "John Charles Thomas". Hunton & Williams. http://www.hunton.com/bios/bio.aspx?id=14597. Retrieved 2008-06-08.