About This Role
This judicial officer role involves a range of legal duties, including issuing warrants, conducting bail hearings, and performing other functions authorized by law. The position is within a magistrate office that operates 24/7, offering a competitive benefits package.
Responsibilities
- Issue arrest warrants and summonses for criminal offenses and other violations of Virginia law
- Issue search warrants
- Conduct bail hearings and admit persons charged with criminal offenses to bail or commit them to jail
- Issue Emergency Protective Orders
- Issue mental health and medical custody and detention orders
- Perform other acts or functions authorized by law
Requirements
- United States citizen
- Resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Bachelor
- Fluency in written and spoken English with strong communications skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact in a professional manner with coworkers, complainants, petitioners, and witnesses, including law enforcement officers
- Strong reading comprehension skills
- Ability to research and interpret the Code of Virginia and other legal resources
- Ability to conduct judicial hearings in a neutral and impartial manner
- Ability to ascertain facts from oral testimony and written submissions and apply them to relevant legal principles
- Ability to properly account for funds
- General computer proficiency and typing skills
Nice to have:
- Relevant legal experience, training, or education
- Membership of the Virginia State Bar
Benefits
- Vacation and sick leave
- Paid state and federal holidays
- Health insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Life insurance
- Deferred compensation
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits
Important Details
- Closing at: June 1, 2026 - 01:00 EDT
- Schedule: 7 days per week, 24 hours per day, including weekends and holidays; specific schedule may vary
- Locations: Albemarle, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Greene, Rockingham, Madison, Orange, Shenandoah, Page, Nelson, Culpeper, Warren, Rappahannock, Fauquier, Frederick, Clark, and Loudoun Counties and the Cities of Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, and Winchester. Principal offices are in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Culpeper, Goochland, Louisa, Orange, Leesburg, Harrisonburg, Front Royal, Winchester, Luray, and Woodstock.
Application Process
- All candidates are subject to a criminal history background check
