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When Virginia’s General Assembly ordered a district court system to succeed the county court system, Judge Rayner V. Snead of Rappahannock County nominated Judge Carson and the Fauquier County Bar Association endorsed his name before the state legislature’s Committee on District Courts.
Fauquier, Loudoun and Rappahannock counties were put together to become one of the state’s 31 judicial districts.
Judge Carson was elected by the General Assembly on Feb. 1, 1974, to a full six-year term through Jan. 31, 1980.
Judge Carson primarily sits in Fauquier and Rappahannock, and Judge Archibald M. Aiken Jr. in Loudoun.
65th Birthday
Judge Carson, whose 65th birthday will be Sept. 13, would have been barred from practicing law had he served more than one full term.
“The legislature just doesn’t want ex-judges to practice law and draw retirement benefits,” said Judge Carson of the fine points of his slightly early retirement.
“It would not be appropriate for me to recommend a successor,” he said. “I imagine several people might be interested—as of July 1, 1980, the salary for a judge in General District Court is 90 per cent of a Circuit Court judge’s salary.”
Coincidentally, Circuit Court Judge Snead announced last month that he would retire "sometime in January.” Judge Snead appointed Judge Carson to fill the county judge’s unexpired term in 1968 and later recommended him to the General Assembly as a District Court judge.
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