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Prior to joining the court, Russell was the deputy attorney general for civil litigation for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was also a partner at the law firm of McSweeney, Crump, Childress & Timple PC. He started his career as a law clerk for the Virginia 13th Judicial Circuit. [2]
Judges of the Virginia Circuit Courts are appointed by the legislature, and serve an eight-year term, after which they may be reappointed. The only mandatory qualification for appointment as a Circuit Court Judge is having been admitted to the Virginia State Bar for at least five years.
The Judiciary of Virginia is defined under the Constitution and law of Virginia and is composed of the Supreme Court of Virginia and subordinate courts, including the Court of Appeals, the Circuit Courts, and the General District Courts. Its administration is headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, the Committee ...
Elizabeth Ann McClanahan (born September 1, 1959) is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.She was sworn in on September 1, 2011, for a term ending in 2023. In January 2019, she announced that she would retire from the Court effective September 1 of that y
While a Circuit Court judge, Frucci created the first ever Drug Court in the City of Virginia Beach in 2016. [5] Frucci is a member of the Virginia Sentencing Commission, the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference, served as a judicial mentor, and was a member of the steering committee that created Virginia Judicial Mentoring Program.
He later became Solicitor General of Virginia under then-Attorney General William C. Mims. He served as opinions counsel and senior appellate counsel under then-Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli. [4] On July 29, 2011, the General Assembly elected McCullough to an eight-year term on the Court of Appeals, beginning August 1, 2011. [5]
The Supreme Court ruled 8–1 that effective legal counsel is a right but in order to prove the counsel is ineffective, the defendant needs to prove (1) their lawyer's performance was below a certain standard and (2) there is a chance that if it was not for the ineffectiveness, a different result could have occurred.
He was appointed by Governor Mark R. Warner to the Virginia Court of Appeals in August 2002. [4] He was subsequently elected by the General Assembly for an eight-year term in 2003 and re-elected in 2011. The General Assembly unanimously elected Kelsey to the Supreme Court on January 20, 2015, for a twelve-year term beginning the following ...