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 2008 / Served to 2011

Cleo Elaine Powell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Cleo Elaine Powell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2011 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Powell authored 16 published opinions for the court (2009–2011), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Davis v. Commonwealth (39 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. 5 of these were attributed to Powell 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
2011	Davis v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	703 S.E.2d 259	39
2010	Startin v. Commonwealth	690 S.E.2d 310	39
2009	Scott v. Commonwealth	684 S.E.2d 833	30
2009	Johnson v. Commonwealth	674 S.E.2d 541	25
2009	McMillan v. Commonwealth	686 S.E.2d 525	15
2009	COMM. DEPT. OF SOC. SER. v. Fulton	683 S.E.2d 837	15
2009	Delaney v. Commonwealth	683 S.E.2d 834	10
2011	Scott v. Commonwealth	708 S.E.2d 440	9
2010	Phillips v. Commonwealth	694 S.E.2d 805	8
2009	Carter v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	682 S.E.2d 77	8
2010	Goble v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	698 S.E.2d 931	6
2009	Prashad v. Copeland	685 S.E.2d 199	6
2009	Startin v. Commonwealth	682 S.E.2d 115	6
2009	Turner v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	680 S.E.2d 312	6
2010	Wade v. Commonwealth	696 S.E.2d 258	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Cleo Elaine Powell on?: Cleo Elaine Powell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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3 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).