LeRoy F. Millette Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

American judge

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1949

Place of Birth: Lewistown, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

  • LeRoy Francis Millette Jr.
  • (born July 30, 1949) is a senior justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
  • Justice Millette was appointed to the Court by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice G.
  • Steven Agee, who had been appointed to the federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • On February 11, 2009, Justice Millette was confirmed for a full 12-year term by the Virginia General Assembly beginning retroactive to February 1, 2009.
  • He entered senior service in 2015.
  • Millette previously served for less than one year on the Court of Appeals of Virginia, also having been appointed by Gov.
  • Kaine and then being subsequently confirmed by the General Assembly.
  • Prior to that, he served as a judge of the Circuit Court of Prince William County, Virginia, in which position he presided over the capital murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Beltway Sniper.
  • Millette confirmed the jury's sentence of death of Muhammad.
  • Millette also was involved in some of the proceedings of the Lorena Bobbitt trial in 1993.
  • Prior to serving on the Circuit Court, Judge Millette was a General District Court Judge, making him one of only three Virginia jurists, along with Justice Lawrence L.
  • Koontz Jr.
  • and Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, to have served at all four levels of courts in Virginia.
  • He received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and his law degree from the Marshall–Wythe School of Law at William and Mary.
  • Justice Millette is married to M.
  • Elizabeth O’Brien Millette and they have two children, Lauren Elizabeth Millette and LeRoy F.
  • Millette III. Gov.
  • Kaine appointed Chesterfield Circuit Court Judge Cleo E.
  • Powell to fill Millette's seat on the Court of Appeals.
  • Millette was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice on September 5, 2008.

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