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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of Virginia / Joined 1987 / Served to 1995

Henry H. Whiting

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Henry H. Whiting was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–2012
Tenure: 1987–1995 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Whiting authored 236 published opinions for the court (1987–2002), plus 20 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Morris v. Morris (231 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. 80 of these were attributed to Whiting 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
1989	Morris v. Morris	385 S.E.2d 858	231
1987	Duggin v. Adams· Dissent†	360 S.E.2d 832	214
1988	O'Dell v. Commonwealth†	364 S.E.2d 491	176
1995	Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc.· Dissent†	453 S.E.2d 261	165
1988	Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson†	368 S.E.2d 268	162
1993	Buchanan v. Doe	431 S.E.2d 289	139
1991	Antonelli v. Antonelli· Dissent†	409 S.E.2d 117	115
1991	Foreign Mission Board v. Wade	409 S.E.2d 144	110
1991	Yeatts v. Commonwealth	410 S.E.2d 254	92
1992	Hubbard v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	413 S.E.2d 875	89
1991	Oxenham v. Johnson	402 S.E.2d 1	89
1988	MacKall v. Commonwealth	372 S.E.2d 759	89
1990	Bulala v. Boyd· Dissent†	389 S.E.2d 670	83
1987	School Board v. United States Gypsum Co.· Dissent†	360 S.E.2d 325	82
1989	Watkins v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	385 S.E.2d 50	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Henry H. Whiting on?: Henry H. Whiting was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Sources

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8 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).