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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 2000 / Active

Robert J. Humphreys

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Robert J. Humphreys is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Humphreys authored 233 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 28 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Kelly v. Commonwealth (712 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. 122 of these were attributed to Humphreys 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	Kelly v. Commonwealth	584 S.E.2d 444	712
2008	Fadness v. Fadness	667 S.E.2d 857	286
2013	Patricia Tackett v. Arlington County Department of Human Services†	62 Va. App. 296	253
2003	City of Newport News Department of Social Services v. Winslow	580 S.E.2d 463	212
2014	Dung Thi Thach and Carlos Mendoza v. Arlington County Department of Human Services†	63 Va. App. 157	179
2007	Williams v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	642 S.E.2d 295	155
2004	Bazemore v. Commonwealth	590 S.E.2d 602	150
2001	Joynes v. Payne	551 S.E.2d 10	136
2004	Harrison v. Tazewell County Department of Social Services	590 S.E.2d 575	134
2006	George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	47 Va. App. 687	115
2005	Artis v. Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.	608 S.E.2d 512	115
2005	Kyer v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	612 S.E.2d 213	113
2005	Wilson v. Commonwealth	615 S.E.2d 500	108
2005	Ranney v. Ranney	608 S.E.2d 485	96
2007	Raab v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	652 S.E.2d 144	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 283 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 J. Humphreys on?: Robert J. Humphreys is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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26 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).