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 1935 / Served to 1969

Claude W. Eggleston

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Claude W. Eggleston was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (10 judges, selected by legislative election), who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1976
Tenure: 1935–1969 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eggleston authored 663 published opinions for the court (1935–1969), plus 20 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Justis v. Young (169 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. 663 of these were attributed to Eggleston 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
1961	Justis v. Young†	202 Va. 631	169
1938	Bradshaw v. Aronovitch†	170 Va. 329	141
1943	Robertson v. Commonwealth†	181 Va. 520	121
1969	Caudill v. Wise Rambler, Inc.†	210 Va. 11	119
1967	Jones v. Commonwealth†	208 Va. 370	116
1956	Worrie v. Boze†	198 Va. 533	100
1939	Hoggard v. City of Richmond· Dissent†	172 Va. 145	98
1965	Cofer v. Cofer†	205 Va. 834	97
1946	Slayton v. Commonwealth†	185 Va. 357	96
1946	Harris v. Diamond Construction Co.†	184 Va. 711	90
1960	Hiss v. Friedberg†	201 Va. 572	81
1965	Globe Iron Construction Co. v. First National Bank†	205 Va. 841	77
1955	Bradley v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	196 Va. 1126	76
1961	Newton v. Newton†	202 Va. 515	72
1941	Prichard v. Battle†	178 Va. 455	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 688 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 Claude W. Eggleston on?: Claude W. Eggleston was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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34 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).