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In October, the Hon. Elizabeth Lacy, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, visited the Law Center as the 2003 Jurist-in-Residence for the Law Center’s program for distinguished state jurists.
     The Jurist-in-Residence program provides members of the Law Center community and visiting justices the opportunity to discuss issues confronting state supreme courts as well as issues of interest to the individual justices. Justice Lacy spoke at a Dean’s Forum luncheon, met with faculty members, participated in selected classes, and discussed facets of state court clerkships during her two-day visit.
     The justice, who was elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1989 for a 12-year term and re-elected to a second term in 2001, earned law degrees from the University of Texas and the University of Virginia. She has spent her legal career in public service. In Texas, she worked for the Texas Legislative Council and was a special assistant and deputy attorney general in the Texas Attorney General’s Office. In Virginia, she served as a legislative aide and counsel, as deputy attorney general with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, and as judge of the Virginia State Corporation Commission before being elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
     Lacy is the second justice to participate in the distinguished state jurist program. The Hon. Gerald VandeWalle, chief judge of the North Dakota Supreme Court, was the Jurist-in-Residence in 2002.