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 1999 / Active

Robert P. Frank

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Robert P. Frank is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Frank authored 204 published opinions for the court (1999–2014), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Edwards v. Commonwealth (625 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. 48 of these were attributed to Frank 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	Edwards v. Commonwealth	589 S.E.2d 444	625
2011	Towler v. Commonwealth	718 S.E.2d 463	200
2012	Phillip C. BAY, S/K/A Philip C. Bay v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia†	60 Va. App. 520	141
2004	West v. Commonwealth	597 S.E.2d 274	132
2010	Williams v. Commonwealth	702 S.E.2d 260	122
2006	George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth†	47 Va. App. 687	115
2004	Cirrito v. Cirrito	605 S.E.2d 268	104
2000	Adams v. Commonwealth	534 S.E.2d 347	100
2011	Holloway v. Commonwealth	705 S.E.2d 510	99
2010	Wood v. Commonwealth	701 S.E.2d 810	95
2010	Atkins v. Commonwealth†	57 Va. App. 2	85
2002	Noel J. Albert v. Cynthia G. Albert†	38 Va. App. 284	64
2012	Adam H. Fox v. Jessica C. Fox†	61 Va. App. 185	63
2010	Andrews v. Creacey	696 S.E.2d 218	59
2005	Farmington Country Club, Inc. v. Marshall	622 S.E.2d 233	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 Robert P. Frank on?: Robert P. Frank is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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27 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).