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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of Virginia / Joined 1995 / Served to 2011

Lawrence L. Koontz

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Lawrence L. Koontz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1995–2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Koontz authored 260 published opinions for the court (1995–2012), plus 37 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Dominion Technology Partners, L.L.C. (583 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. 72 of these were attributed to Koontz 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	Williams v. Dominion Technology Partners, L.L.C.	576 S.E.2d 752	583
2008	Porter v. Com.· Dissent†	661 S.E.2d 415	300
2007	Conyers v. MARTIAL ARTS WORLD OF RICHMOND	639 S.E.2d 174	300
1997	Beck v. Commonwealth	484 S.E.2d 898	170
1996	Clagett v. Commonwealth	472 S.E.2d 263	151
2002	Super Fresh Food Markets of Virginia, Inc. v. Ruffin	561 S.E.2d 734	141
2002	Armstrong v. Commonwealth	562 S.E.2d 139	141
2001	Yuzefovsky v. St. John's Wood Apartments	540 S.E.2d 134	139
2004	Powell v. Commonwealth	590 S.E.2d 537	128
1996	Davis v. Mullins	466 S.E.2d 90	120
2006	Ulloa v. Qsp, Inc.	624 S.E.2d 43	119
2006	Rawls v. Com.	634 S.E.2d 697	116
2009	Elliott v. Com.	675 S.E.2d 178	113
2001	Commonwealth v. Sands· Dissent†	553 S.E.2d 733	113
2001	Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson v. Skate America, Inc.	540 S.E.2d 123	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 305 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 Lawrence L. Koontz on?: Lawrence L. Koontz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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15 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).