Mary Grace O'Brien (born 1958) is a Judge of the
Virginia Court of Appeals
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Life and education
O'Brien was born in 1958 in
Buffalo,
New York
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. She received her
Bachelor of Arts
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from
Le Moyne College
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and her
Juris Doctor
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from
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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Legal career
She clerked for the Honorable
Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr. of the
Supreme Court of Virginia
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for two years. Then Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert hired her in 1985. In 2001, she was elevated to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for PWC, and in 2008, she was elevated to be the first female Circuit Court Judge in the 31st Judicial Circuit.
Service on Virginia Court of Appeals
She was elected by the General Assembly on January 22, 2015, to an eight-year term beginning February 1, 2015.
On June 15, 2015 she was invested as the 37th Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Her current term expires in on January 31, 2023.
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Living people
1958 births
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
Judges of the Court of Appeals of Virginia
Le Moyne College alumni
Lawyers from Buffalo, New York
Washington and Lee University School of Law alumni
20th-century American women lawyers
21st-century American women judges