Onzlee Ware News Today

Ciaffone will assume a Circuit Court vacancy on the 23rd Circuit and Thompson will fill Ciaffones vacated Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court position on the bench.

One aspect of Salem attorney Rachel Thompsons recent appointment as a judge is that she must leave her position on the city school board.

The state legislature elected judges last week. Its one of the final actions that lawmakers take before adjourning for the year.

Onzlee Ware, who died earlier this month, was a former Democratic state legislator from Roanoke and the first Black judge appointed to the city’s Circuit Court.

Roanoke Judge Onzlee Ware, who rose from drug charges and a gunshot wound that cost him a leg to become a Virginia legislator and the first Black judge in the city’s Circuit Court, died Saturday, Feb.10, 2024, the Roanoke Bar Association reported.

Ware rose from drug charges and a gunshot wound that cost him a leg to become a Virginia legislator and the first Black judge in the citys Circuit Court.

Ware rose from drug charges and a gunshot wound that cost him a leg to become a Virginia legislator and the first Black judge in the citys Circuit Court.

Ware rose from drug charges and a gunshot wound that cost him a leg to become a Virginia legislator and the first Black judge in the citys Circuit Court.

Former 11th District Virginia Delegate and Roanoke City Circuit Court judge Onzlee Ware has died at age 70.

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