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 2003 / Served to 2008

George Steven Agee

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

George Steven Agee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 2003. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 2003–2008 · 5 yrs
Education: Bridgewater College 1974

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–
2003	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–
2003	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

New York University
Bridgewater College	B.A.	1974

Judicial Record

In our data, Agee authored 15 published opinions for the court (2001–2008), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Porter v. Com. (300 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. 22 of these were attributed to Agee 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
2008	Porter v. Com.†	661 S.E.2d 415	300
2005	Kollman v. Jordan†	612 S.E.2d 203	93
2005	Com. v. Hilliard· Concurrence†	613 S.E.2d 579	64
2001	Armstrong v. Commonwealth· Separate†	549 S.E.2d 641	48
2001	Shoup v. Shoup· Concurrence†	556 S.E.2d 783	39
2002	Lee County School Board v. Miller· Dissent†	563 S.E.2d 374	37
2003	Hansen v. Stanley Martin Companies, Inc.†	585 S.E.2d 567	31
2003	Perez v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	580 S.E.2d 507	29
2003	Shropshire v. Commonwealth†	577 S.E.2d 521	22
2002	Ange v. York/Poquoson Department of Social Services· Concurrence†	560 S.E.2d 474	16
2001	Potts v. Commonwealth†	546 S.E.2d 229	16
2004	Frederick County School Board v. Hannah†	590 S.E.2d 567	15
2003	City of Suffolk Ex Rel. Herbert v. Board of Zoning Appeals†	580 S.E.2d 796	15
2003	Eugene Harry Proctor, III v. Commonwealth†	40 Va. App. 233	10
2002	B.P. v. Commonwealth†	38 Va. App. 735	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 George Steven Agee on?: George Steven Agee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Sources

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5 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).