Virgil C. Smith
Male, Person
1947 –
Who is Virgil C. Smith?
Virgil C. Smith is a judge of the 3rd Circuit Court in Wayne County, Michigan. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in this court by Governor Jennifer Granholm. Smith has served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives and as a Michigan State Senator. He represented a district in Detroit.
Smith has a law degree from Wayne State University and earned his bachelors degree from Michigan State University.
Smith had served on the judiciary committee of the state house in 1980-1981. He was elected to the Michigan State Senate in 1988, and became the Democrat floor leader in 1995. In 1992 Smith made an unsuccessful run for the office of Wayne County Prosecutor. Since the State Senators serve for four years, Smith was not up for re-election in that year. Apparently he was first elected to the state senate in a special election. He resigned to take a job with the Wayne County Prosecutors office in 2001 and remained in that job until he was appointed to the Circuit Court in 2004.
On January 1, 2009 Smith became the chief judge of the 3rd Circuit.
Smith and his wife Elizabeth are the parents of four children. Among these are Virgil Smith, Jr., a member of the Michigan Senate who served from 2003 to 2008 in the Michigan State House.
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- Born
- Jul 4, 1947
Michigan - Also known as
- Virgil Smith
- Education
- Wayne State University
- Michigan State University
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on July 23, 2013
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