Some backstory, from WRIC (ABC-8) (Dean Mirshahi):
Judge Adrianne Bennett, the former chairwoman of Virginia's Parole Board, was suspended from the bench last year amid an intensifying scandal over the board's handling of certain cases.
Bennett left the board to become a Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judge, but she was indefinitely suspended by a panel tasked with investigating claims of judicial misconduct nearly a year to the day after she was sworn in….
She was suspended … on April 13, 2021, … but is listed as a Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court presiding judge on the court's website.
From Thursday's Virginia Supreme Court decision in In re Bennett (a per curiam endorsed by Chief Justice Bernard Goodwyn, Justices Cleo Powell and Stephen McCullough, and Senior Justice LeRoy Millette):
