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 1947 / Served to 1960

Willis D. Miller

Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia

Willis D. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1960
Tenure: 1947–1960 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Richmond

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 240 published opinions for the court (1919–1960), plus 15 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Parris v. Commonwealth (109 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. 234 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1949	Parris v. Commonwealth†	189 Va. 321	109
1957	Storm v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance†	199 Va. 130	80
1960	Kellam v. School Board of City of Norfolk†	117 S.E.2d 96	77
1958	Mason v. Commonwealth†	200 Va. 253	77
1950	LaPrade v. Commonwealth†	191 Va. 410	73
1948	Duffy v. Hartsock†	187 Va. 406	72
1951	Worrie v. Christine†	191 Va. 916	69
1956	Packard Norfolk, Inc. v. Miller	198 Va. 557	62
1948	Tri-State Coach Corp. v. Walsh†	188 Va. 299	62
1956	Almond v. Day	197 Va. 782	57
1956	Pike v. Eubank†	197 Va. 692	51
1957	Mann v. County Board of Arlington County†	98 S.E.2d 515	50
1949	Hercules Powder Co. v. Brookfield.†	189 Va. 531	50
1954	King v. County of Arlington· Dissent†	195 Va. 1084	45
1958	Richmond-Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Davis· Dissent†	200 Va. 147	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 259 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 was Willis D. Miller on?: Willis D. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Sources

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13 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).