Gayl B. Carr

Gayl Branum Carr is a judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

Gayl Ylla Branum was born in Los Angeles, California and attended John Muir High School in Pasadena, graduating in 1979. She then attended Virginia Commonwealth University, attaining a B.S.W, and the University of Richmond for her J.D.

She was an assistant attorney general.

Upon joining the bench of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations court in 1994, Judge Carr became the first African-American woman to sit on the bench in Fairfax County.