
Listen to an audio recording of an oral history interview of five judges who sat on the inaugural Court of Appeals in 1985: Retired Judge James W. Benton, Jr., Senior Judge Sam W. Coleman, III; U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Barbara M. Keenan, Senior Justice Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., and Judge Norman K. Moon. Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Professor of History at Norfolk State University and Oral Historian for the Supreme Court of Virginia, interviewed the judges on March 27, 2013, at WCVE Studios in Richmond.