The Virginia State Law Library is pleased to announce the availability of a
new resource on the Virginia Judiciary web site, Supreme Court of Virginia
Justices, 1779-present.  This online biographical directory can be accessed
from the judicial branch web site at
http://www.courts.state.va.us/courtadmin/library/home.html or directly, at
scvahistory.org.

The directory features the portraits (when available) and biographical
information of each of the justices who have served on the Supreme Court of
Virginia since 1779.  Audio recordings and transcripts of oral histories of
retired justices are also included.  Our goal is to make this information
available to the public, with the directory serving as an accurate
scholarly resource for students, educators, historians and others
interested in the history of the court.


A special thanks to Kelly Parrish, Department of Judicial Planning, and the
Washington and Lee School of Law, for sharing resources gathered for The
Supreme Court of Virginia: Historical Portraits of the Justices, 1799-2011,
published in 2010 (now out of print). The publication of this guide made it
possible to create an online directory illustrated with the portraits.

Several archivists, librarians, and others provided  research assistance in
the compilation of the online directory. Sincere thanks to Meghan A.
Townes, Visual Studies Collections Registrar, and Audrey McElhinney, Senior
Rare Book Librarian, Library of Virginia; the knowledgeable staff of
reference archivists at the Library of Virginia; Cecilia Brown, Special
Collections Archivist, University of Virginia Law Library; Lisa S. McCown,
Senior Special Collections Assistant, Washington and Lee Leyburn Library;
John Jacob, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Washington and Lee
Law Library; Susan Riggs, Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, Swem
Library, College of William and Mary; Suzanne Corriell, Associate Director
for Reference, Research and Instructional Services in the Muse Law Library,
University of Richmond; and student interns from the VCU Department of
History and George Washington University internship programs.



Catherine G. OBrion
Librarian-Archivist, Virginia State Law Library
Supreme Court Building
100 N. 9th St., Richmond VA 23219
804.225.2739


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