RD303 - Annual Report on the Number of District Court Judges Needed and the Districts for which They Should Be Authorized


Executive Summary:
Virginia Code § 16.1-69.10 provides that the Committee on District Courts shall make a study and report to the General Assembly on the number of district court judges needed and the districts for which they should be authorized. The Committee on District Courts recommends the authorization of four new general district judgeships (one each in the Second, Eleventh, Fifteenth and Twenty-sixth Judicial Districts), and six new juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships (one each in the First, Eleventh, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Judicial Districts) effective July 1,2008. Please find enclosed the reports outlining the workload analysis for each judicial district referenced above, and the fiscal impact statement for these judgeships. As you will see, the financial impact for the creation of each new district court judgeship will be $231,753.