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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of Virginia / Joined 2002 / Active

Walter S. Felton Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Virginia

Walter S. Felton Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Richmond
University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Felton authored 69 published opinions for the court (2002–2016), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Parks v. Parks (194 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. 19 of these were attributed to Felton 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
2008	Parks v. Parks	666 S.E.2d 547	194
2010	Hunter v. Commonwealth	695 S.E.2d 567	112
2009	Shiembob v. Shiembob	685 S.E.2d 192	89
2004	Budnick v. Budnick	595 S.E.2d 50	79
2003	Roberts v. Roberts· Concurrence†	586 S.E.2d 290	58
2008	West v. West	669 S.E.2d 390	43
2005	Pruden v. Plasser American Corp.	612 S.E.2d 738	41
2002	GRAYSON (COUNTY OF) SCHOOL BOARD v. Cornett	572 S.E.2d 505	40
2003	Holsapple v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	574 S.E.2d 756	38
2006	Black v. Powers· Concurrence†	628 S.E.2d 546	36
2004	Guda v. Commonwealth	592 S.E.2d 748	35
2012	Raheem Montaz Knight v. Commonwealth of Virginia†	61 Va. App. 297	34
2007	Morgan v. Commonwealth	646 S.E.2d 899	33
2009	Roberts v. Commonwealth	684 S.E.2d 824	30
2006	Pierce v. Commonwealth	633 S.E.2d 755	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 Walter S. Felton Jr. on?: Walter S. Felton Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Sources

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24 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).