Education
University of Richmond School of Law. University of Richmond.
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Marvin Cole
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Career
After earning a bachelor"s degree from the University of Richmond in 1943, he joined the United States Navy. As a communications officer stationed in Hawaii, he helped a joint congressional committee investigate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war, he entered the University of Richmond"s T.C. Williams School of Law, graduating in 1948.
He also served as a judge for national moot court trials, the Young Men’s Christian Association"s mock-trial program and for trial tactics courses at the University of Richmond.
In 1985, following the death of Chief Judge East. Ballard Baker, Judge Cole was appointed the Court of Appeals of Virginia. He retired from active service in 1991, but continued to sit as a Senior Judge for another nine years.
Membership
Judge Cole was a member of the Virginia State Bar for more than 50 years and was a former president of the Richmond Trial Lawyers Association.
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August 20, 2005 (aged 0)