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Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 2006 / Active

Randolph Allen Beales

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Randolph Allen Beales is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1960 · age 66
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

College of William and Mary

Judicial Record

In our data, Beales authored 101 published opinions for the court (2006–2017), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Andrew McQuay Jacobs v. Commonwealth of Virginia (210 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. 67 of these were attributed to Beales 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
2013	Andrew McQuay Jacobs v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	61 Va. App. 529	210
2011	Ervin v. Commonwealth†	704 S.E.2d 135	147
2012	Van Andre Beasley v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	60 Va. App. 381	110
2013	Laura McGahey Roberts White v. David Carlton Wright†	61 Va. App. 432	93
2014	George Wesley Huguely, V v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	63 Va. App. 92	81
2011	Lovos-Rivas v. Commonwealth	707 S.E.2d 27	69
2016	Lamont Anthony Woods v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	66 Va. App. 123	56
2015	Claude Davis v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	65 Va. App. 485	49
2015	LaDawn Shrieves King v. Commonwealth of Virginia· Concurrence†	64 Va. App. 580	46
2014	Bruce M. Mayer v. Linda Corso-Mayer†	62 Va. App. 713	45
2015	Melvin L. Layne v. Crist Electrical Contractor, Inc. and Assurance Services Corporation†	64 Va. App. 342	40
2007	Jones v. Commonwealth	650 S.E.2d 859	40
2007	Charity v. Commonwealth	643 S.E.2d 503	40
2008	Ferguson v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	658 S.E.2d 692	38
2015	Robert Allen Wilkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	64 Va. App. 711	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 is Randolph Allen Beales on?: Randolph Allen Beales is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

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20 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).