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Supreme Court of Virginia / Joined 2008 / Active

LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

Senior Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

LeRoy F. Millette Jr. is a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 2008 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

College of William and Mary

Judicial Record

In our data, Millette authored 49 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Jones v. Com. (142 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. 8 of these were attributed to Millette 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
2009	Jones v. Com.	670 S.E.2d 727	142
2008	Ortiz v. Com.	667 S.E.2d 751	111
2009	Sunrise Continuing Care, LLC v. Wright	671 S.E.2d 132	92
2012	Burns v. Gagnon	727 S.E.2d 634	59
2010	Banks v. Com.	701 S.E.2d 437	56
2011	Com. v. Amerson	706 S.E.2d 879	55
2009	Seals v. Erie Ins. Exchange	674 S.E.2d 860	46
2011	Burton v. Com.	708 S.E.2d 892	43
2009	Prieto v. Com.	682 S.E.2d 910	35
2010	Herndon v. Com.	694 S.E.2d 618	32
2010	Jones v. Com.	690 S.E.2d 95	31
2011	Com. v. Smith	709 S.E.2d 139	30
2016	Thorsen v. Richmond Soc'y for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals†	786 S.E.2d 453	27
2009	Carroll v. Johnson	685 S.E.2d 647	27
2012	Wyatt v. McDermott	725 S.E.2d 555	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 is LeRoy F. Millette Jr. on?: LeRoy F. Millette Jr. is a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Sources

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17 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).