LeRoy Francis Millette Jr. (born July 30, 1949) is a senior justice of the

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. Millette was appointed to the Court by Virginia Governor

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to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice G. Steven Agee, who had been appointed to the federal

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. On February 11, 2009, 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

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, also having been appointed by Governor 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

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, 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

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trial in 1993. Prior to serving on the Circuit Court, he was a general district court judge, making him one of only three Virginia jurists, along with Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. and Justice

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, to have served at all four levels of courts in Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree from the

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and his

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degree from the Marshall–Wythe School of Law at William and Mary. Millette is married to M. Elizabeth O’Brien Millette and they have two children, Lauren Elizabeth Millette and LeRoy F. Millette III. Governor 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.

External links

College of William & Mary profileOfficial announcement of Millette's appointment
– Office of the Governor of Virginia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Millette, Leroy F. Jr. 1949 births Living people 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges 21st-century American lawyers College of William & Mary alumni Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia People from Lewistown, Pennsylvania People from Prince William County, Virginia William & Mary Law School alumni