Jane Marum Roush

The Honorable Jane Marum Roush is a judge on the Circuit Court.

After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981, Roush joined the firm of Boothe Pritchard & Dudley.

In 1985, Roush moved to the Washington D.C.-based law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where she practiced for eight years before her appointment to the Circuit Court.

In May 2000, Judge Roush ruled that the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office is not a public body as defined in Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, and so not required to turn over police reports to defense counsel. Judge Roush's decision took the form of an opinion letter and so was not binding in other jurisdictions, but the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed her decision in Connell v. Kersey in June 2001, and it became binding. The decision was rendered moot by the General Assembly of Virginia, which amended the Virginia Freedom of Information Act in 2002 and expressly defined constitutional officers as public bodies.

On July 26, 2013, Judge Roush allowed a video and still camera to be placed in her courtroom during the trial of Julio Blanco Garcia for the murder of Vanessa Pham, the first time in nearly 20 years that cameras had been allowed in a courtroom during a trial.