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Retired General District Judge William P. “Billy” Hay Jr. of Farmville died April 15. He was 95. Raised in Richmond, Judge Hay graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1942. He served two tours of combat duty with the U.S. Marines in World ...

Legendary Richmond lawyer Lewis T. Booker died April 4 at age 85. Mr. Booker built a national reputation for handling large, complex litigation in a four-decade career at Hunton & Williams. He began practice with the Richmond-based firm in 1956 ...

Richmond criminal defense lawyer Mark Tyndall died March 18. He was 61. A 1981 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he earned his law degree from the University of Richmond three years later. Except for a short time in which he ...

Retired Fairfax General District Chief Judge J. Conrad Waters Jr. died March 19. He was 78. Judge Waters graduated from Seton Hall University law school in 1968, and briefly practiced law in New Jersey. He returned to Virginia and first ...

Former Virginia State Bar president James C. Roberts of Richmond died March 8. He was 82. Mr. Roberts was for many years the managing partner of Mays & Valentine, before that firm merged with Troutman Sanders in 2001. Troutman Sanders ...

Richmond attorney W. Scott Street III died Feb. 1 after battling a rare form of cancer. He was 70. A native of Richmond, Mr. Street was valedictorian of his high school class at Hargrave Military Academy. He earned a BA ...

Retired Waynesboro Juvenile & Domestic Relations Judge John B. Curry II passed away at his home Feb. 1. He was 70. He was a graduate of Waynesboro High School, and attended Bridgewater College and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he earned ...

William F. “Bud” Roeder Jr., the longtime Fairfax City attorney, died Jan. 6 at his home in Vienna. He was 72. Mr. Roeder began his career in private practice in Fairfax City in 1967. He served as city attorney from ...

Grundy lawyer Gerald “Jerry” P. Coleman died Dec. 23, 2014. He was 83. A graduate of Berea College, he earned his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1963. He was a teacher in the Buchanan County school system ...

Retired Washington & Lee University law school Dean Roy Lee Steinheimer Jr. died Jan. 8 in Lexington. He was 98. He was dean of the law school from 1968 to 1983 and the Robert E.R. Huntley Professor of Law Emeritus. ...