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 2009 / Active

Rossie D. Alston Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Rossie D. Alston Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

North Carolina Central University

Judicial Record

In our data, Alston authored 66 published opinions for the court (2009–2017), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Flanagan v. Commonwealth (217 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. 40 of these were attributed to Alston 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
2011	Flanagan v. Commonwealth	714 S.E.2d 212	217
2012	Christopher Farrell v. Warren County Department of Social Services†	59 Va. App. 375	169
2011	Ervin v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	704 S.E.2d 135	147
2011	Johnson v. Commonwealth	709 S.E.2d 175	120
2013	Gary Alexander Cuffee v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	61 Va. App. 353	116
2010	Smith v. Commonwealth	697 S.E.2d 14	110
2011	Holloway v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	705 S.E.2d 510	99
2011	Perry v. Commonwealth	712 S.E.2d 765	97
2010	Parish v. Commonwealth	693 S.E.2d 315	73
2012	Thomas Pope, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	60 Va. App. 486	52
2016	Rebecca Allen v. Joseph William Allen†	66 Va. App. 586	47
2014	Raymond Charles Case v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	63 Va. App. 14	43
2010	Brown v. Commonwealth	702 S.E.2d 582	35
2011	Williams v. Commonwealth	706 S.E.2d 530	32
2012	Dawn Farrell v. Warren County Department of Social Services†	59 Va. App. 342	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 Rossie D. Alston Jr. on?: Rossie D. Alston Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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17 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).