How do judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of Virginia / Joined 1967 / Served to 1981

Albertis S. Harrison

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Albertis S. Harrison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1995
Tenure: 1967–1981 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Harrison authored 278 published opinions for the court (1916–1981), plus 25 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: James v. Jane (268 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 179 of these were attributed to Harrison by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1980	James v. Jane†	282 S.E.2d 864	268
1970	Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth	211 Va. 269	256
1973	Hughes v. Moore· Dissent†	214 Va. 27	145
1980	Justus v. Commonwealth†	266 S.E.2d 87	143
1970	Ritter v. Commonwealth	210 Va. 732	142
1978	McGhee v. Commonwealth†	248 S.E.2d 808	137
1979	Clark v. Commonwealth†	220 Va. 201	125
1972	Shell Oil Co. v. Leftwich	212 Va. 715	123
1981	Fleming v. Moore· Dissent†	275 S.E.2d 632	110
1972	Cunningham v. Insurance Company of North America†	189 S.E.2d 832	107
1975	Logan v. Montgomery Ward & Co.	216 Va. 425	101
1970	Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Bishop	211 Va. 414	85
1977	Valley Landscape Co. v. Rolland	218 Va. 257	83
1977	ABOD v. Commonwealth†	237 S.E.2d 900	75
1970	Woodson v. Celina Mutual Insurance	211 Va. 423	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 304 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Albertis S. Harrison on?: Albertis S. Harrison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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14 years on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).