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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 1985 / Served to 1991

Barbara Milano Keenan

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Barbara Milano Keenan was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1991 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Keenan authored 107 published opinions for the court (1985–1991), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Wagner Enterprises, Inc. v. Brooks (512 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. 23 of these were attributed to Keenan 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
1991	Wagner Enterprises, Inc. v. Brooks	407 S.E.2d 32	512
1991	Lavinder v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	407 S.E.2d 910	364
1987	Graves v. Graves	357 S.E.2d 554	311
1987	Williams v. Commonwealth†	354 S.E.2d 79	209
1986	Woolley v. Woolley	3 Va. App. 337	198
1990	Josephs v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	390 S.E.2d 491	195
1988	Fitzgerald v. Bass	366 S.E.2d 615	184
1991	Helen & Robert W. v. Fairfax County Department of Human Development	407 S.E.2d 25	170
1987	DePriest v. Commonwealth	359 S.E.2d 540	149
1989	Schoenwetter v. Schoenwetter	383 S.E.2d 28	142
1988	Iglesias v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	372 S.E.2d 170	117
1986	Walls v. Commonwealth	347 S.E.2d 175	106
1987	Speight v. Commonwealth	354 S.E.2d 95	101
1990	Clements v. Clements	397 S.E.2d 257	81
1986	Gardner v. Commonwealth†	3 Va. App. 418	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Barbara Milano Keenan on?: Barbara Milano Keenan was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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6 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).