
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1994                   TAG: 9403020075
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MEGAN SCHNABEL STAFF WRITER
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LAWYERS DIFFER ON JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS

The Roanoke and Roanoke County-Salem bar associations ended up with unmatched sets of names when they voted Tuesday afternoon on their endorsements for three judgeships within the 23rd Judicial Circuit.

During a closed meeting attended by about 250 of the group's 420 members, the Roanoke Bar Association made the following nominations by secret ballot:

For a new judgeship in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court: Joseph Bounds, 50, a Roanoke attorney. Bounds has practiced law in Roanoke for 24 years. He also has worked as an assistant commonwealth's attorney and as a substitute judge. He is married and has three children.

For a new judgeship in Circuit Court: Julian Raney, 48, a judge in General District Court. Raney, who is married and has two children, joined the bench in Roanoke in 1984. Prior to that, he had worked in the commonwealth's attorney's office.

For a vacancy in General District Court: Bill Broadhurst, 39, an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Roanoke County. Broadhurst has been with the commonwealth's attorney's office since 1987. From 1981-87 he was in private practice in Roanoke and from 1980-81 was with the public defender's office, also in Roanoke. He is married and has three children.

The 52 members of the Roanoke County-Salem Bar Association present at Tuesday's meeting made the following nominations, also by secret ballot:

For the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court: Broadhurst.

For the Circuit Court: Richard Pattisall, 56, a judge in General District Court. Pattisall has been on the bench in Roanoke since 1989, when he left his private Roanoke practice. He is married and has four children.

For the General District Court: Vincent Lilley, 37, a lawyer in private practice in Salem. Lilley, who is married and has three children, was a prosecutor in Roanoke County and a member of a Salem law firm before opening his own practice six years ago.

The nominations of the two bar associations will be passed on to the General Assembly, which will have final say on who will fill the positions.

by CNB