PUBLIC "-//Virginia State Law Library::Supreme Court of Virginia Archives//TEXT (US::ViL::vil00003::A Guide to the Supreme Court of Virginia Oaths of Office, 1935-1985; 2007))//EN" "vil00003.xml" A Guide to the Supreme Court of Virginia Oaths of Office, 1935-1985; 2007 Clerk's correspondence and other records 00028932 Catherine G. OBrion Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia Archives © 2012 By The Virginia State Law Library. All rights reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid created directly in EAD, created by Catherine G. OBrion, 05 January 2012 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Supreme Court of Virginia Oaths of Office, 1935-2012 A Collection in the Supreme Court of Virginia Archives, Virginia State Law Library 00028932 Catherine G. OBrion

Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia Archives 2012 Contact information: Virginia State Law Library Supreme Court of Virginia 100 North Ninth Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 URL: http://www.courts.state.va.us/courtadmin/library/home.html Email: LawLibrary@vacourts.gov Phone: (804) 786-2075 Library staff Supreme Court of Virginia Archives Descriptive Summary Supreme Court of Virginia Archives, Virginia State Law Library Supreme Court of Virginia Oaths of Office, 1935-1985; 2007 00028932 0.45 cu. ft. (1 box) English Virginia. Supreme Court. Office of the Clerk. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Because the library is not open to the general public, researchers should contact the library to arrange access to the collection.

Preferred Citation

Supreme Court of Virginia Oaths of Office, 1935-1985; 2007, Accession #00028932, Supreme Court of Virginia Archives, Virginia State Law Library, Richmond.

Acquisition Information

These records were transferred from the Clerk's office to the State Law Library in 2006.

Historical Information

The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia was created by an act of the new General Assembly in 1779. Although the Supreme Court of Virginia possesses both original and appellate jurisdiction, its primary function is to review decisions of lower courts, including the Court of Appeals, from which appeals have been allowed.

Section 49-1 of the Code of Virginia requires justices to take an oath as on officer of the Commonwealth. Pursuant to Section 49-3 of the Code of Virginia, justices may be sworn in by a judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of a court of record; a judge of a district court; the Secretary of the Commonwealth, or a State Corporation Commissioner. Justices are elected by the legislature to 12-year terms. Chief justices are elected by a majority vote of the other Supreme court justices and serve a four-year term.

The Supreme Court of Virginia Clerk's Office receives, processes, and maintains permanent records of all appeals and other official documents filed with the Court. The Clerk also maintains records of qualified attorneys and other administrative records.

 Scope and Content

The collection (not comprehensive) contains oaths of office of Supreme Court justices between 1935 and 2012. The collection also contains the oaths taken by Supreme Court Clerk Maury B. Watts, 1937; Deputy Clerk Bryan L. Clarke, 1957; Clerk Allen L. Lucy, 1977; Attorney General Kenneth C. Patty, 1957; and J. Lindsay Almond, Roanoke (city) Hustings Court judge, 1941.

 Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Virginia. Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Virginia. Supreme Court. Virginia. Supreme Court. Office of the Clerk. Subjects: Judges--Virginia. Virginia -- Supreme Court -- History -- 20th century. Clerks of court -- Virginia -- 20th century. Genre/Form: Oaths -- Virginia. Contents List J. Lindsay Almond, Roanoke (city) Hustings court judge, 1946, 1947, 1963 1 Justice Archibald Chapman Buchanan, 1946, 1947, 1963 2 Chief Justice Harry Lee Carrico, 1962, 1966, 1979, 1981 3 Bryan L. Clark, Deputy Clerk, 1958 4 Justice George Moffett Cochran, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975 5 Chief Justice John William Eggleston, 1935, 1961, 1970 6 Justice Thomas Christian Gordon, Jr., 1965 7 Justice Herbert Bailey Gregory, 1942 8 Justice Alexander Marrs Harman, 1969, 1970, 1975 9 Justice Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., 1970, 1971 10 Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell, 2007 11 Chief Justice Henry Winston Holt, 1942 12 Chief Justice Edward Wren Hudgins, 1942, 1954 13 Chief Justice Lawrence Warren I'Anson, 1958, 1978 14 Allen L. Lucy, Clerk, 1977 15 Justice Willis Dance Miller, 1947, 1948, 1955 16 Kenneth C. Patty, Attorney General, 1957 17 Justice Richard Harding Poff, 1972, 1985 18 Justice Lemuel Franklin Smith, 1951, 1953 19 Justice Harold Fleming Snead, 1957, 1958, 1964 20 Chief Justice Claude Vernon Spratley, 1947, 1959 21 Justice Abram Penn Staples, 1947, 1948 22 Justice John Charles Thomas, 1983 23 Justice William Carrington Thompson, 1980 24 Maury B. Watts, Clerk, 1937 25 Justice Henry Hudson Whiting, 1987 26 Justice Kennon Cathness Whittle, 1951, 1952, 1954 27