Records of the Committee on District Courts, 1973-1974

Hodnett, Frederick A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q07vsn (person)

Virginia. Office of the Attorney General

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mh1f3p (corporateBody)

The Office of the Attorney General originated in medieval England. While representing the king in his courts, the Attorney General gradually assumed the role of legal advisor to the government and all its agencies. In Virginia, the first Attorney General was commissioned in 1643. The Declaration of Independence in 1776 ended the Attorney General's connection with royal authority, but the state constitution adopted that year continued the office under the auspices of the General Assembly. The con...

Bennett, Hubert D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn7vrw (person)

Miller, Andrew P. (Andrew Pickens), 1932-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v69w4m (person)

Virginia. Committee on District Courts.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx8j93 (corporateBody)

In 1972, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation establishing general district and juvenile and domestic relations district courts. Beginning July 1, 1973, every county and city was required to have one general district court and one juvenile and domestic relations district court, with one or more general district court judges and one or more juvenile and domestic relations district court judges. (Virginia Code 16.1-69.7) Town courts with general civil and criminal jurisdic...

Virginia. Supreme Court. Office of the Executive Secretary

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c63pb (corporateBody)

Leroy Rountree Hassell, Jr. (1955-2011) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 2003 to 2011. He was appointed to the court in 1989. Hassell was the first African American elected chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia delivers an annual state of the judiciary message each May at the Virginia Judiciary Conference. From the guide to the Chief Justice Leroy Hassell's Annual State of the...