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 1995 / Served to 2004

Rosemarie Annunziata

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Rosemarie Annunziata was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2004 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Annunziata authored 235 published opinions for the court (1995–2009), plus 16 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Watkins v. Commonwealth (319 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. 79 of these were attributed to Annunziata 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
1998	Watkins v. Commonwealth	494 S.E.2d 859	319
2002	Wactor v. Commonwealth	564 S.E.2d 160	291
2002	Davis v. Commonwealth	570 S.E.2d 875	274
1999	Rusty's Welding Service, Inc. v. Gibson	510 S.E.2d 255	186
1999	Anderson v. Anderson	514 S.E.2d 369	174
1998	Barker v. Barker	500 S.E.2d 240	135
1996	Theismann v. Theismann· Concurrence†	471 S.E.2d 809	130
2004	Estate of Hackler v. Hackler· Concurrence†	602 S.E.2d 426	128
1996	Dollar General Store v. Cridlin	468 S.E.2d 152	127
1998	Welshman v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	502 S.E.2d 122	123
1998	Thomas C. Shooltz v. Jane Hoffman Shooltz†	27 Va. App. 264	121
1998	Timbers v. Commonwealth	503 S.E.2d 233	117
1997	Sara Rahbaran v. Kamran Rahbaran†	26 Va. App. 195	104
1998	Moody v. Commonwealth	508 S.E.2d 354	94
2005	Miller v. Cox	607 S.E.2d 126	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Rosemarie Annunziata on?: Rosemarie Annunziata was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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9 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).