March 27, 2013

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. Read the transcript: