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 1989 / Served to 2008

Jere M.H. Willis Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Jere M.H. Willis Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2008 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Willis authored 307 published opinions for the court (1990–2012), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Juares v. Commonwealth (150 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. 120 of these were attributed to Willis 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
1997	Juares v. Commonwealth	493 S.E.2d 677	150
1991	Jacques v. Commonwealth†	405 S.E.2d 630	145
1993	Fisher v. Commonwealth	431 S.E.2d 886	107
1999	Clark v. Commonwealth	517 S.E.2d 260	92
1995	Buck v. Commonwealth	456 S.E.2d 534	62
1999	Runyon v. Commonwealth	513 S.E.2d 872	61
1999	McNair v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	521 S.E.2d 303	60
1995	Ballance v. Commonwealth	461 S.E.2d 401	60
2003	Roberts v. Roberts	586 S.E.2d 290	58
1995	Griffin v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	454 S.E.2d 363	56
1991	Kogon v. Ulerick†	405 S.E.2d 441	55
1990	Rose v. Red's Hitch & Trailer Services Inc.	396 S.E.2d 392	54
1992	Smith v. Hylton· Dissent†	416 S.E.2d 712	53
1990	Behrensen v. Whitaker†	392 S.E.2d 508	51
1995	McQuinn v. Commonwealth	460 S.E.2d 624	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Jere M.H. Willis Jr. on?: Jere M.H. Willis Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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19 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).