Honorable Jay T. Swett (Ret.)


Areas of Experience

Areas of Experience

Personal injury, labor and employment, professional malpractice, family, product liability, civil rights, commercial, construction, real estate, trusts and estates, business torts, local government and organizational disputes.

Credentials

• Judge, 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Charlottesville, 1990-98; Chief Judge, 1994-96.
• Former Partner, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Charlottesville.
• Certified Mediator, Supreme Court of Virginia, since 1999.
• Member, Virginia State Bar/Virginia Bar Association Joint Committee on Dispute Resolution.
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
• Former Member, Boyd-Graves Conference.
• Member, Judicial Conference of United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
• Member, Charlottesville-Albemarle County Bar Association.
• Former Chair, Judicial Administration Committee.
• Former Member, Judicial Conduct Committee.
• Former Faculty Member, University of Virginia (trial advocacy).
• Member, American Judicature Society and American Judges Association.
• University of Virginia, J.D., 1972.
  Denison University, B.A., 1965.