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Mrs. Baliles remembers that while many of their friends aimed for large law firms and big money after graduation, her husband wanted to get out and try cases. That led him to the attorney general’s office in Richmond, where he was hired as an assistant attorney general in 1967, and “within six months I was trying cases all over the state,” he said. Andrew P. Miller, elected attorney general two years after Baliles came to the office, remembers that he came to a quick realization that Baliles was “a quick study” and naturally turned to the young lawyer when the office needed to beef up its environmental law expertise.
With the passage of the federal Clean Air and Clean Water acts, state agencies were confronted with a myriad of new rules and regulations, Miller said. “Jerry was very good in working with the agencies and getting them on track.” Law Expert
In short order, Baliles staked out a place as one of the leading experts on environmental law in Virginia and the Southeast. He also began, largely at the urging of his fellow lawyers Angus Macaulay and John Shenefield, to get involved in local Democratic politics.
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