Randy I. Bellows

The Honorable Randy I. Bellows is a judge on the Circuit Court.

Bellows attended the University of Florida in Tallahassee, where he was the editor of the student newspaper, "The Florida Alligator", which later became "The Independent Florida Alligator", before graduating in 1974. Bellows then attended Harvard University's School of Law, graduating with his J.D. in 1977.

From October 1979 to August 1983, Bellows was a staff attorney at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service.

Bellows next joined the Department of Justice before moving on to the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1989.

While an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Bellows was part of many high profile cases. These included:
 * The fraud trial of Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson, who had used his own sperm to impregnate female patients and used hormone treatments to convince others that they were pregnant when they were not.
 * The prosecution of United Way director William Aramony for fraud, charging that Aramony had used the charity's funds for his own enrichment.
 * The espionage trial of Former FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts, who spied for the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
 * The espionage trial of former FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen, who also spied for the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation from 1979 to 2001.
 * The case of so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001.

Additionally, Bellows headed up an internal probe into the FBI's investigation of Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-American scientist who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of spying for the People's Republic of China before being completely exonerated. This investigation produced the so-called "Bellows Report", which was highly critical of the FBI's handling of the investigation.

Bellows was appointed to the bench of the Circuit Court in 2002 by Governor Mark R. Warner to fill the vacancy left by the appointment of Judge Henry E. Hudson to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.