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

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 2002 / Served to 2015

Arthur D. Kelsey

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Arthur D. Kelsey was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2015 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

Old Dominion University
College of William and Mary

Judicial Record

In our data, Kelsey authored 184 published opinions for the court (2002–2015), plus 15 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Congdon v. Congdon (519 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. 62 of these were attributed to Kelsey 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
2003	Congdon v. Congdon	578 S.E.2d 833	519
2005	Toms v. Hanover Department of Social Services	616 S.E.2d 765	478
2005	Thomas v. Commonwealth	607 S.E.2d 738	362
2004	Haskins v. Commonwealth	602 S.E.2d 402	351
2003	Crowder v. Commonwealth	588 S.E.2d 384	315
2009	Cooper v. Commonwealth	680 S.E.2d 361	174
2005	Logan v. Commonwealth†	622 S.E.2d 771	166
2006	Thomas v. Commonwealth	633 S.E.2d 229	156
2003	Clinchfield Coal Co. v. Reed	577 S.E.2d 538	156
2008	Price v. Commonwealth	658 S.E.2d 700	154
2008	Brandau v. Brandau	666 S.E.2d 532	152
2003	Slayton v. Commonwealth	582 S.E.2d 448	143
2013	Yasmine S. Hamad v. Sammy N. Hamad†	61 Va. App. 593	134
2006	Tynes v. Commonwealth	635 S.E.2d 688	130
2004	Seaton v. Commonwealth	595 S.E.2d 9	116

Showing the 15 most-cited of 205 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 Court of Appeals of Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Arthur D. Kelsey on?: Arthur D. Kelsey was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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