Courts committees set process for filling judicial vacancies 
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Published: March 11, 2011
Tags: General Assembly, Judge Clifford R. Weckstein, Judge Gary Hicks, Judgeships, Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr., Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
David B. Albo, chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee, has asked the Virginia State Bar to vet additional candidates to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Karen A. Gould, executive director of the VSB, said the agency’s judicial nominating committee would attempt to do so, despite a schedule that would have ...
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