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 1947

George L. Browning

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

George L. Browning was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1867–1947
Tenure: 1930–1947 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Browning authored 301 published opinions for the court (1930–1947), plus 12 dissents. Most cited: Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co. (77 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. 312 of these were attributed to Browning 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
1939	Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co.†	172 Va. 383	77
1947	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cook†	186 Va. 658	66
1944	Hankins v. Town of Virginia Beach†	182 Va. 642	66
1938	Wynn v. Gandy†	170 Va. 590	50
1943	Broaddus v. Gresham· Dissent†	181 Va. 725	44
1941	Pickeral v. Federal Land Bank†	177 Va. 743	38
1938	Kiser v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America†	169 Va. 574	38
1940	Board of Supervisors v. Boaz†	176 Va. 126	33
1938	Spence v. American Oil Co.†	171 Va. 62	33
1941	McNeir v. McNeir†	178 Va. 285	32
1941	Texas Co. v. Zeigler†	177 Va. 557	32
1944	Barber v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	182 Va. 858	31
1942	Williamson v. Commonwealth†	180 Va. 277	30
1943	Collins v. Lyon, Inc.†	181 Va. 230	29
1938	Dotson v. Commonwealth†	171 Va. 514	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 313 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 L. Browning on?: George L. Browning was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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17 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).