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 2000 / Served to 2008

Jean Harrison Clements

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Jean Harrison Clements was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2008 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Clements authored 89 published opinions for the court (2001–2010), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Emerson v. Commonwealth (160 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. 19 of these were attributed to Clements 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
2004	Emerson v. Commonwealth	597 S.E.2d 242	160
2002	Alsberry v. Commonwealth	572 S.E.2d 522	130
2004	Estate of Hackler v. Hackler· Concurrence†	602 S.E.2d 426	128
2005	Artis v. Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.· Dissent†	608 S.E.2d 512	115
2002	Andrews v. Commonwealth	559 S.E.2d 401	109
2004	Farnsworth v. Commonwealth	599 S.E.2d 482	94
2002	Tomes v. James City (County Of) Fire	573 S.E.2d 312	89
2005	Auer v. Commonwealth	621 S.E.2d 140	79
2004	Breeden v. Commonwealth	596 S.E.2d 563	70
2001	Rollins v. Commonwealth	554 S.E.2d 99	61
2003	Banks v. Commonwealth	586 S.E.2d 876	60
2004	Yopp v. Hodges· Concurrence†	598 S.E.2d 760	59
2005	Schwartz v. Commonwealth	611 S.E.2d 631	52
2003	Patterson v. City of Richmond	576 S.E.2d 759	48
2008	Tyszcenko v. Donatelli	670 S.E.2d 49	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 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 Jean Harrison Clements on?: Jean Harrison Clements was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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8 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).