The Hon. Joi Jeter-Taylor (Ret.) served as a judge for the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia. Jeter-Taylor was elected to the bench by the Virginia General Assembly in 2014, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Margaret P. Spencer. She retired in 2021.
The 13th Judicial Circuit encompasses the City of Richmond.
Prior to her election, Jeter-Taylor was a judge for the 13th Judicial District Court, a position to which she was named in 1998. Before that, she spent time as an assistant attorney general with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office (1983 to 1998).
Jeter-Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in English and economics from Lincoln University in 1979. She then completed a J.D. at Howard University School of Law in 1982.
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