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	<title>Virginia Lawyers Weekly &#187; Judgeships</title>
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		<title>Twelve seek federal district court bench seat&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/11/twelve-seek-federal-district-court-bench-seat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia State Bar reports 12 people have applied to be evaluated by the VSB’s Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee for the Eastern District vacancy to be created when U.S. District Judge James Spencer takes senior status next year. The names are: Albert, Alan D. Carr, Dabney J., IV Fountain, Edwin L. Gill, Paul G. Heretick, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial selection meets number crunching&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/23/judicial-selection-meets-number-crunching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the General Assembly convenes in 2014, the political horse-trading over who gets what judges will have a new data-backed dimension. The process will be informed by the weighted caseload study currently being conducted by the National Center for State Courts, whose report is due to legislators on Nov. 15. Members of the Judicial Council, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief justice makes plea for filling judgeships&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/15/chief-justice-makes-plea-for-filling-judgeships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROANOKE – The head of Virginia’s court system is raising the volume on her call for more money from the state government. “The time has arrived to fund and fill all vacant judgeships,” proclaimed Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser in her state of the judiciary speech May 14. Kinser said the administration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toughen up to seek tough job as judge&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/17/toughen-up-to-seek-tough-job-as-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being elected as a judge in Virginia may look like a genteel affair, compared to the hurly-burly of direct election as used in other states. But it doesn’t necessarily feel that way to the would-be judges. You need to develop “skin as thick as an armadillo,” said Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan. She appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly funds, but fails to fill, 12 judgeships&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/12/assembly-funds-fails-to-fill-12-judgeships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After budget wrangling with Gov. Bob McDonnell and a post-midnight session of judicial elections, the 2013 Virginia General Assembly filled less than half of the 49 judicial vacancies in the commonwealth. The unfilled openings include 12 seats that had been funded following a contentious back-and-forth among the House, the Senate and McDonnell. The governor now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loudoun judgeship unfilled after lawyer grilled on abortion&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/08/loudoun-judgeship-unfilled-after-lawyer-grilled-on-abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican lawmakers have raised a howl in Loudoun County after a Democratic Senator allegedly blocked election of Leesburg lawyer William H. Atwill Jr. to a circuit court judgeship. Based on questions from legislators last week, Atwill may have run afoul of concerns about his stance on abortion. At his interview before members of the General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly approves judgeship money, elects judges&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/04/assembly-approves-judgeship-money-elects-judges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia General Assembly approved Gov. Bob McDonnell’s recommendation to add 12 additional judgeships to those funded in the coming two-year budget and then elected judges to a number of those vacant seats before departing the Capitol early Thursday morning. The failure to elect judges to some of the funded judgeships leaves those seats open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonnell proposes funding 12 additional judgeships&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/26/mcdonnell-proposes-funding-12-additional-judgeships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Bob McDonnell last Tuesday recommended adding an extra 12 judgeships to the 20 already included for funding in the budget approved earlier by the General Assembly. McDonnell’s proposal would spend $1.8 million to fill 11 vacant positions in courts that are either 40 percent or more above the state average workload or have at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly trims judge funding plans&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/27/assembly-trims-judge-funding-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/27/assembly-trims-judge-funding-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Circuit Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget approved by the General Assembly Saturday provides money for unfreezing only five extra judgeships in addition to the 15 proposed in Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal. Earlier this month, the House and Senate introduced budget plans that were far more generous to the judiciary. The House proposed filling an extra 17 judgeships and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assembly budget plans would fill more judgeships&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/07/assembly-budget-plans-would-fill-more-judgeships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both the House and Senate money committees are more generous to the courts than Virginia’s governor in terms of allocating money for judgeships. The House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees last week recommended filling more vacant judgeships than the 15 proposed by Gov. Bob McDonnell, but the House and Senate differed on where the judges [...]]]></description>
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