HON. EDMUND WADDILL, JR....U. S. Circuit Judge.... Richmond, Va. HON. JOHN J. PARKER.. HON. ELLIOTT NORTHCOTT.... Maryland: U.S. Circuit Judge. . Charlotte, N. C. U. S. Circuit Judge.... Huntington, W. Va. DISTRICT JUDGES. HON. MORRIS A. SOPER. . . . . . U. S. District Judge.... Baltimore, Md. HON. WILLIAM C. COLEMAN.. U. S. District Judge... Baltimore, Md. Virginia (Eastern District): HON. D. LAWRENCE GRONER..U. S. District Judge....Norfolk, Va. Virginia (Western District): HON. HENRY C. MCDOWELL..U. S. District Judge....Lynchburg, Va. West Virginia (Northern District): HON. WILLIAM E. BAKER.... .U. S. District Judge.... Elkins, W. Va. West Virginia (Southern District): HON. GEORGE W. MCCLINTIC..U. S. District Judge.... Charleston, W. Va. North Carolina (Eastern District): HON. ISAAC M. MEEKINS.....U. S. District Judge... Elizabeth City, N. C. North Carolina (Middle District): HON. JAMES E. BOYD.... U. S. District Judge... Greensboro, N. C. HON. JOHNSON J. HAYES. . . . .U. S. District Judge... Greensboro, N. C. North Carolina (Western District): HON. E. Y. WEBB.. .U. S. District Judge...Shelby, N. C. South Carolina (Eastern District): HON. ERNEST F. COCHRAN....U. S. District Judge... Charleston, S. C. South Carolina (Western District): HON. H. H. WATKINS. . . . . U. S. District Judge... Anderson, S. C. Number Honorary Members. 78 APPENDIX I. 1928 ADMISSION TO THE BAR IN VIRGINIA ADDRESS OF JAMES H. CORBITT President Virginia State Bar Association At Annual Meeting of Association, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, August 1, 1928. It would be instructive, and would refute many criticisms, fully to review the work done by the Virginia State Bar Association and the valuable services rendered by it to the profession and to the public. This Association cannot, however, rest upon what it has accomplished, but must consider mainly what useful public service it may render in the future, for, as has been well said, public service must always be "the controlling and vivifying spirit of the Association and the source of its importance, prestige and influence in the public eye." The opportunities for service have been, and are, many and varied, but, having in mind its past services in the matter of legal education and admission to the bar, it is well at this time to consider what further useful public service this Association may render in bringing about higher standards in legal education and increased educational requirements for admission to the bar. While English and Canadian lawyers are organized in two branches, that is, solicitors and barristers, on the lines of mediaeval guilds or modern trade unions who determine the admission of new members to their own respective branches, in the United States there is only one class, and the members derive their privileges from a superior organ of the State-almost invariably a court of justice-and are in effect officers of the |