Attorney
After his service in the U.S. Army, Gilmore entered the University of Virginia Law School in the mid-1970s, graduating in 1977. After working for a decade as an attorney at the firm Benedetti, Gilmore, Warthen and Dalton, he was elected Commonwealth's Attorney of his native Henrico County in 1987 and 1991, and then was first elected to statewide office in 1993 as Virginia's Attorney General. After his term ended in 1997, Gilmore joined the law firm of LeClairRyan as a partner.
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