How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 2005 / Served to 2012

James W. Haley Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

James W. Haley Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2012 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Haley authored 54 published opinions for the court (2005–2012), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Commonwealth (155 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. 16 of these were attributed to Haley 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
2007	Williams v. Commonwealth	642 S.E.2d 295	155
2006	Luginbyhl v. Commonwealth†	628 S.E.2d 74	117
2008	Johnson v. Commonwealth	669 S.E.2d 368	80
2009	De Haan v. De Haan	680 S.E.2d 297	64
2011	Burton v. Commonwealth	708 S.E.2d 444	57
2006	McDuffie v. Commonwealth	638 S.E.2d 139	53
2008	McKee v. McKee· Concurrence†	664 S.E.2d 505	51
2012	Anthony Michael Sfreddo v. Vanessa Sfreddo†	59 Va. App. 471	43
2008	Wright v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	667 S.E.2d 787	43
2011	Williams v. Commonwealth	717 S.E.2d 837	36
2008	Jones v. Commonwealth	665 S.E.2d 261	34
2008	Rogers v. Rogers	656 S.E.2d 436	32
2008	Podracky v. Commonwealth	662 S.E.2d 81	27
2009	Lacey v. Commonwealth	675 S.E.2d 846	25
2005	Bruemmer v. Bruemmer	616 S.E.2d 740	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Court of Appeals of Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was James W. Haley Jr. on?: James W. Haley Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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7 years on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).