Service On The Supreme Court of Virginia
In 1991, Keenan was elected to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, succeeding Justice Charles S. Russell. Justice Keenan was reelected in 2003 to a second twelve-year term on the Court.
Justice Keenan holds the distinction of being the first Virginia jurist to have served at every level of Virginia's judicial system (District, Circuit, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court). Sr. Justice Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., and Justice Leroy F. Millette, Jr., have also served at every level of the state's court system. She joins Judge G. Steven Agee of that court as the second Virginia Supreme Court Justice (and former Virginia Court of Appeals judge) to advance to the federal appellate bench in recent times.
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