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 1985 / Served to 1997

Norman K. Moon

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Norman K. Moon was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1985–1997 · 12 yrs
Education: University of Virginia-Main Campus 1959

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

B.A.

1959

Judicial Record

In our data, Moon authored 96 published opinions for the court (1986–1997), plus 20 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Lee v. Lee (337 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. 131 of these were attributed to Moon 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
1991	Lee v. Lee· Separate†	404 S.E.2d 736	337
1997	Street v. Street†	488 S.E.2d 665	274
1987	Mounce v. Commonwealth†	357 S.E.2d 742	245
1987	Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Pierce†	363 S.E.2d 433	203
1989	Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. Musick†	376 S.E.2d 814	181
1994	Logan v. Commonwealth· Separate†	452 S.E.2d 364	149
1996	Theismann v. Theismann†	471 S.E.2d 809	130
1989	Kauffmann v. Commonwealth†	382 S.E.2d 279	125
1997	Mary Anne Rowe v. Charles S. Rowe†	24 Va. App. 123	112
1992	Campbell v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	421 S.E.2d 652	90
1986	Visikides v. Derr†	348 S.E.2d 40	67
1995	Southside Virginia Training Center v. Shell†	455 S.E.2d 761	64
1993	Baity v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	431 S.E.2d 891	64
1990	Stainback v. Stainback· Dissent†	396 S.E.2d 686	64
1990	Chesterfield County/Fire Dept. v. Dunn†	389 S.E.2d 180	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Norman K. Moon on?: Norman K. Moon was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

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12 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).