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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After a distinguished law career of 47 years, A. Burke Hertz of Flint Hill will be retiring on April 30 from the 20th Judicial District as a judge in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
Judge Hertz has sat on the bench since 1980, when he replaced Judge Moffett, who retired. He started out being the only judge in the 20th District, but “The legislature was kind enough to appoint another one,” he said. Now, Judge Hertz covers mostly Rappahannock and Fauquier County cases, and Judge Jean Clements is based mostly in Loudoun.
He attended Georgetown Law and graduated in 1948. After working briefly for a law firm, Judge Hertz decided to open his own law office in Falls Church where he resided. He practiced law there for 24 years and was also the Commissioner of Revenue. He said that he saw Falls Church grow from a small country town, which was a kind of resort area for people from Washington, DC.
He grew up there with his family on 18 to 20 acres with horses, a garden, and plenty of fishing. “It was really way out in the country,” he said. And since he always wanted to get back to that country way of life, Judge Hertz and his w'ife Carole, a psy.-chologist, ended up moving to Rappahannock County in the 1970’s.
He learned about Rappahannock from his friend Granville Eastham, who quail hunted with him, and sold him the land for his house. Another attnaction was the ski area in Harris Hollow, as Judge Hertz was an avid skier at the time.
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