Honorable Kenneth E. Trabue (Ret.)


Areas of Experience

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

Credentials

• Judge, 23rd Judicial Circuit Court, Roanoke County and the cities of Roanoke and Salem, 1977-95; Chief Judge, 1987-1989, 1993-95.
• Former Partner, Hunter, Fox & Trabue, Roanoke.
• Certified Mediator, Supreme Court of Virginia, since 1996.  Mediated and arbitrated over 700 cases.
• Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation.
• Former Member, Executive Committee, Judicial Conference of Virginia.
• Former Member, Commission on the Future of Virginia’s Judicial System, Supreme Court of Virginia.
• Former Member, National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges.
• President, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, 1976-1977.
• Editorial Board, Circuit Court Bench Books, 1983 – 1995.
• Former Member, Steering Committee, Boyd-Graves Conference.
• Former Chairman, Judicial Conduct Committee, Judicial Conference of Virginia.
• Former Faculty Member, Mandatory Course on Professionalism, Virginia State Bar.
• Former Member, Judicial Panel to Hear Annexation Disputes.
• Member, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
• Member and Former Chair, Model Jury Instructions Committee, 1983-2003.
• Former Member, Virginia Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. Inception to January 31, 2006.
• Member, Committee for Revision of the Canons of Judicial Conduct.
• Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1961. 
  Purdue University, B.S., 1956.