John M. Tran

The Honorable John Minh Tran is a judge on the Circuit Court.

Tran was the son of a South Vietnamese diplomat who came to the United States in 1970 and was stranded here when that country fell in 1975. He lived in Arlington and graduated from Yorktown High School in 1977.

Tran graduated from George Washington University in 1981 with a B.A., then took his J.D. from GWU's law school in 1984.

In 1988, Tran became an Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Alexandria. He was also named a Special Assistant United States Attorney in 1992.

Tran left the Commonwealth's Attorney's office in 1993 and became a founding partner of the firm of Greenberg, Bracken and Tran along with Cary S. Greenberg and David S. Bracken.

When Greenberg, Bracken, and Tran broke up 1998, Tran became of counsel at the Washington, D.C. firm of Tobin, O'Connor, Ewing and Richard, managing their Alexandria office.

Tran joined the firm of Dimuro Ginsberg and Mook as a partner in 2004.

Tran was elected to the bench of the Circuit Court on April 4, 2013, and began his term on July 1.

Judge Tran is the first Asian-American to sit on the bench of any court in Virginia.