2015 Code of Virginia
Title 16.1 - Courts Not of Record
§ 16.1-69.6:1. Number of judges

VA Code § 16.1-69.6:1 (2015) What's This?

For the several judicial districts there shall be full-time general district court judges and juvenile and domestic relations district court judges, the maximum number as hereinafter set forth, who shall during their service reside within their respective districts, except as provided in § 16.1-69.16, and whose compensation and powers shall be the same as now and hereafter prescribed for general district court judges and juvenile and domestic relations district court judges.

The maximum number of judges of the districts shall be as follows:


General District
Court Judges
Juvenile and Domestic
Relations District Court Judges
First44
Second77
Two-A11
Third23
Fourth65
Fifth22
Sixth42
Seventh44
Eighth33
Ninth34
Tenth34
Eleventh33
Twelfth56
Thirteenth64
Fourteenth55
Fifteenth810
Sixteenth46
Seventeenth32
Eighteenth22
Nineteenth117
Twentieth43
Twenty-first12
Twenty-second24
Twenty-third45
Twenty-fourth36
Twenty-fifth35
Twenty-sixth57
Twenty-seventh55
Twenty-eighth23
Twenty-ninth23
Thirtieth22
Thirty-first55

The election or appointment of any district judge shall be subject to the provisions of § 16.1-69.9:3.

1974, c. 1; 1975, c. 41; 1976, c. 56; 1977, c. 5; 1978, c. 2; 1979, c. 7; 1980, c. 93; 1981, c. 26; 1982, c. 4; 1983, c. 1; 1985, c. 44; 1986, c. 75; 1987, c. 16; 1988, c. 22; 1989, c. 44; 1990, c. 112; 1992, c. 91; 1993, cc. 8, 31; 1994, c. 89; 1994, 1st Sp. Sess., cc. 3, 7; 1995, c. 20; 1996, c. 121; 1997, c. 16; 1998, c. 2; 1999, c. 11; 2000, c. 43; 2001, c. 16; 2004, Sp. Sess. I, c. 4; 2005, cc. 189, 228, 951; 2006, cc. 34, 488; 2006, Sp. Sess. I, c. 2; 2014, cc. 812, 822.

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