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RICHMOND—
Justice Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser will be the next chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.The justices elected Kinser to succeed Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr.
The court says Justice Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser will assume the post on Feb. 1, 2011.
She will the the court's first female chief justice.
Virginia's chief justice supervises the administration of the state's entire court system and may assign any circuit court judge temporarily to another circuit or call retired circuit judges back to active duty.
Former Gov. George Allen appointed Kinser to the court in 1997.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
