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 1951

Herbert B. Gregory

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Herbert B. Gregory 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: 1884–1951
Tenure: 1930–1951 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gregory authored 446 published opinions for the court (1910–1951), plus 21 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Potts v. Mathieson Alkali Works (114 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. 471 of these were attributed to Gregory 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
1935	Potts v. Mathieson Alkali Works†	165 Va. 196	114
1944	Anderson v. Commonwealth†	182 Va. 560	102
1940	Eaton v. Davis†	176 Va. 330	82
1937	Falden v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	167 Va. 542	82
1945	Dunlavey v. Commonwealth†	184 Va. 521	62
1935	Reynolds v. Milk Commission†	163 Va. 957	59
1946	Pannill v. Commonwealth†	185 Va. 244	57
1943	Acme Markets., Inc. v. Remschel†	181 Va. 171	57
1942	Sayers v. Bullar†	180 Va. 222	55
1944	Bly v. Southern Railway Co.†	183 Va. 162	53
1937	Jones v. Morris Plan Bank†	168 Va. 284	53
1942	Federal Land Bank v. Joynes†	179 Va. 394	50
1941	Heflin v. Heflin†	177 Va. 385	49
1950	Newberry v. Commonwealth†	191 Va. 445	46
1931	Slade v. Commonwealth†	155 Va. 1099	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 473 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 Herbert B. Gregory on?: Herbert B. Gregory was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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21 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).