Virginia Appellate Court History

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Chronological list of presiding judges, court presidents and chief justices, 1779-present

Edmund Pendleton, 1779-1803
Peter Lyons, 1803-1809
William Fleming, 1809-1824
Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 1824-1831
Henry St. George Tucker, 1831-1841
William H. Cabell, 1842-1850
John James Allen, 1851-1865
Richard Cassius Lee Moncure, 1866-1869; 1870-1882
Horace Blois Burnham, 1869-1870 
Orloff Mather Dorman, 1870
Lunsford Lomax Lewis, 1883-1894
James Keith, 1895-1916
Richard Henry Cardwell, 1916
George Moffett Harrison, 1916-1917
Stafford Gorman Whittle, 1917-1919
Joseph Luther Kelly, 1920-1924
Frederick Wilmer Sims, 1924-1925
Robert Riddick Prentis, 1925-1928
Preston White Campbell, 1931-1946
Henry Winston Holt, 1946-1947
Edward Wren Hudgins, 1947-1958
John William Eggleston, 1958-1969
Harold Fleming Snead, 1969-1974
Lawrence Warren I’Anson, 1974-1981
Harry Lee Carrico, 1981-2003
Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr., 2003-2011
Cynthia D. Fannon Kinser, 2011-2014
Donald Wayne Lemons, 2015-2021
S. Bernard Goodwyn, 2022-present

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