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delegates for one of their seats last November.
Practically speaking, however, naming Virginia’s judges remains a special privilege of the Senate’s majority party despite annual Republican protest. The Democratic caucus in the Senate decides in secret who gets the caucus’s critical stamp of approval, although the House of Delegates comes up with its list of nominees from the House’s Democratic caucus.
Names of nominees for judgeships come from the attorneys’ local bar association. New judges Robertson and Alexander were unanimously endorsed by' the Fauquier 'Slid Loudoun bar associations. Their nominations went through the House and Senate apparently without a hitch.
Sen. Waddell, who traditionally would have had automatic backing for his nominee because he is the Democratic senator from the district with an open judgeship, said he chose to nominate Republican Rollins after the Loudoun bar association's unanimous endorsement of Rollins.
The only other nominee for the 20th District Juvenile and Domestic Relations judgeship was • A. Burke Hertz by unanimous vote of the Rappahannock bar association.
Sen. Waddell said he would support only a Loudoun candidate. He argued from the start that Loudoun has double the population of the district’s next largest county, Fauquier, and almost seven times the caseload. He added that retiring Judge Moffett spent at least a couple days a week commuting to Loudoun to hear cases. Sen. Waddell represents Loudoun and part of Fairfax County. In the House of Delegates, Del. Bell, the delegate from
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