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 1930 / Served to 1958

Edward W. Hudgins

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Edward W. Hudgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (10 judges, selected by legislative election), who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1958
Tenure: 1930–1958 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Hudgins authored 562 published opinions for the court (1930–1958), plus 53 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Feitig v. Chalkley (141 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. 627 of these were attributed to Hudgins 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
1946	Feitig v. Chalkley†	185 Va. 96	141
1935	Merritt v. Commonwealth†	164 Va. 653	104
1939	Hoggard v. City of Richmond†	172 Va. 145	98
1953	Burnette v. Commonwealth†	194 Va. 785	92
1949	Zirkle v. Commonwealth†	189 Va. 862	85
1956	Wright v. Everett†	197 Va. 608	82
1948	Mullen v. Mullen· Dissent†	188 Va. 259	81
1957	Storm v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	199 Va. 130	80
1934	Thomas v. Snow†	162 Va. 654	79
1954	Gardner v. Commonwealth†	195 Va. 945	72
1937	Ferguson v. Ferguson· Dissent†	169 Va. 77	72
1933	Allen v. Mottley Construction Co.†	160 Va. 875	71
1946	Addison v. Salyer†	185 Va. 644	70
1940	Commonwealth v. Dodson· Dissent†	176 Va. 281	68
1955	Harper v. Commonwealth†	196 Va. 723	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 628 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 Edward W. Hudgins on?: Edward W. Hudgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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28 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).