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 1951 / Served to 1965

Kennon C. Whittle

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Kennon C. Whittle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1967
Tenure: 1951–1965 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, Whittle authored 234 published opinions for the court (1909–1964), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Vasilion v. Vasilion (134 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. 200 of these were attributed to Whittle 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
1951	Vasilion v. Vasilion†	192 Va. 735	134
1954	Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Laburnum Construction Corp.†	195 Va. 827	122
1956	Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth†	198 Va. 288	77
1961	Elizabeth River Tunnel District v. Beecher†	117 S.E.2d 685	68
1964	Ward v. Commonwealth†	205 Va. 564	62
1954	Judd v. Van Horn	195 Va. 988	60
1951	Avery v. County School Board	192 Va. 329	58
1952	Raiford v. Raiford· Concurrence†	193 Va. 221	54
1958	Southern Motor Lines Co. v. Alvis†	200 Va. 168	52
1953	Campbell v. Commonwealth†	194 Va. 825	51
1952	Hundley v. Commonwealth†	193 Va. 449	51
1955	Crisman v. Commonwealth†	197 Va. 17	50
1962	Fenon v. City of Norfolk†	203 Va. 551	48
1952	Northern Virginia Power Co. v. Bailey†	194 Va. 464	44
1962	Williams v. Commonwealth†	203 Va. 837	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 248 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 Kennon C. Whittle on?: Kennon C. Whittle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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13 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).