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 1924 / Served to 1946

Preston W. Campbell

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Preston W. Campbell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (10 judges, selected by legislative election), who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1954
Tenure: 1924–1946 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 517 published opinions for the court (1924–1946), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Falden v. Commonwealth (82 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. 533 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
1937	Falden v. Commonwealth†	167 Va. 542	82
1925	Triplett v. Commonwealth†	141 Va. 577	81
1940	Mumpower v. Housing Authority†	176 Va. 426	78
1925	Jones v. Commonwealth†	141 Va. 471	59
1933	Young v. Dyer†	161 Va. 434	47
1931	Sullivan v. Commonwealth†	157 Va. 867	46
1924	Kennedy Coal Corp. v. Buckhorn Coal Corp.†	140 Va. 37	43
1946	Jones v. Commonwealth†	184 Va. 679	42
1942	McClaugherty v. McClaugherty†	180 Va. 51	37
1934	Norfolk Protestant Hospital v. Plunkett†	162 Va. 151	37
1937	Light v. City of Danville· Dissent†	168 Va. 181	36
1933	Dodson v. Commonwealth†	159 Va. 976	36
1927	Owens v. Commonwealth†	147 Va. 624	36
1927	Wood v. City of Richmond†	148 Va. 400	34
1944	Costello v. Larsen†	182 Va. 567	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 533 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 Preston W. Campbell on?: Preston W. Campbell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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22 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).