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Controls Marion circuit assignments: felony designations W-Brigham / X-Kissner Kwatkosky / Y-Rogers / Z-McCourt; DR designations FC-Bass / FG-Jerald / FJ-Craggs / FK-Pickens; civil thirds (incl. forfeitures, bond validations, eminent domain, trust/estate litigation) to Herndon, Hodges and Youmans; King takes all probate/guardianship/Baker/Marchman/juvenile; and the Administrative Judge role passes to Judge Youmans effective June 15, 2026.
• In any Domestic Violence and Repeat Violence cases where the parties have a pending domestic relations case, such domestic/repeat violence case shall be assigned to the judge handling the domestic relations case. In any newly filed domestic relations cases where a Petition for Injunction for Protection has previously been filed, the domestic relations case shall be assigned to whichever judge handled the injunction. • Prior to noon on each Friday, the judge assigned to handle First Appearances, Shelter Hearings, and Detention Hearings that weekend will be delivered the duty judge telephone and computer which he/she will retain until the next Friday at noon, at which time the duty judge telephone and computer will be delivered to the next assigned judge. When a holiday falls on a Friday, the duty will switch at noon and the holiday will be split between the two judges on that day. It will be the responsibility of the morning duty judge to handle all First Appearances, Shelter Hearings, and Detention Hearings. Each judge so assigned (the “Duty Judge”) will be responsible for ensuring that a judge is available during usual courthouse business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday), except lunch hour, to help to review petitions for injunctions and other matters which require immediate attention. The hearing dates and times required on petitions for injunctions that are filed after hours on weekends, and on holidays will be provided by the Domestic Relations judges on a rotating basis.
In any Domestic Violence and Repeat Violence cases where the parties have a pending domestic relations case, such domestic/repeat violence case shall be assigned to the judge handling the domestic relations case. In any newly filed domestic relations cases where a Petition for Injunction for Protection has previously been filed, the domestic relations case shall be assigned to whichever judge handled the injunction.
Reviewer note: Fetched + hashed + full-text verified 2026-07-20 (sha256 0ca569c6…). ARBITRATION CORRECTION: prior research roster kept the Administrative-Judge role and problem-solving courts under Judge Rogers — the order text transfers them to Judge Youmans effective 6/15/2026, and adds her Ryce/VOP/VOCC + drug-court duties. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 2 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote. Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.