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 1991 / Served to 2013

Larry G. Elder

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Larry G. Elder was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2013 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Elder authored 331 published opinions for the court (1991–2013), plus 63 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Kelly v. Commonwealth (712 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. 154 of these were attributed to Elder 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
2003	Kelly v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	584 S.E.2d 444	712
1995	Sandoval v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	455 S.E.2d 730	495
2009	Clanton v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	673 S.E.2d 904	283
1997	Street v. Street· Dissent†	488 S.E.2d 665	274
2011	Dickerson v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	709 S.E.2d 717	220
1997	Canipe v. Commonwealth	491 S.E.2d 747	141
1994	McDavid v. McDavid	451 S.E.2d 713	139
2004	West v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	597 S.E.2d 274	132
2003	Blevins v. Commonwealth	579 S.E.2d 658	132
1999	Crawley v. Commonwealth	512 S.E.2d 169	131
1992	Brown v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	421 S.E.2d 877	130
1999	Brown v. Brown· Concurrence†	518 S.E.2d 336	128
1998	Harris v. Commonwealth	500 S.E.2d 257	115
2000	Ashby v. Commonwealth	535 S.E.2d 182	109
1997	Von Raab v. Von Raab	494 S.E.2d 156	103

Showing the 15 most-cited of 425 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 Larry G. Elder on?: Larry G. Elder was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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22 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).