Laura Griffin

Laura G. Griffin (Col ’00 CM) has been appointed clerk of court for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, becoming the court’s senior executive. She has served the court as the chief deputy clerk of court since 2023 and first joined the court as the chief deputy clerk of operations in October 2021. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, widely known as “the rocket docket,” handles some of the country’s most prolific cases involving national security and civil rights and has divisions in Alexandria, Norfolk, Newport News and Richmond.