How do judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of Virginia / Joined 2019 / Active

Teresa M. Chafin

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Teresa M. Chafin is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, serving since 2019. She previously served on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2019 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–
2019	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Chafin authored 11 published opinions for the court (2013–2019). Most cited: Angela Maye Holt v. Commonwealth of Virginia (158 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. 11 of these were attributed to Chafin 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
2016	Angela Maye Holt v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	66 Va. App. 199	158
2016	Wayne Antonio Bland, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	66 Va. App. 405	31
2014	Advance Auto and Indemnity Insurance Company of North America v. Brenda Lee Craft†	63 Va. App. 502	29
2017	Arthur G. Kahn v. Eileen McNicholas†	67 Va. App. 215	15
2014	Kin Yiu Cheung v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	63 Va. App. 1	12
2016	Rudolph David Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	66 Va. App. 619	9
2015	Geoffrey Narcisco Rivera v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	65 Va. App. 379	8
2017	Carroll Edward Gregg, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	67 Va. App. 375	6
2013	Ronald Stuart Murry, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	62 Va. App. 179	3
2013	Kepa, Inc., d/b/a She-Sha Café and Hookah Lounge v. Virginia Department of Health†	61 Va. App. 696	3
2019	MPS Healthcare, Inc., etc. v. Dept. of Medical Assistance Services/Commonwealth of Virginia†	830 S.E.2d 57	1

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 Supreme Court of Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court is Teresa M. Chafin on?: Teresa M. Chafin is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Sources

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).