Article: Retiring Loudoun Judge Carleton Penn Changed Attitudes

When Carleton Penn II, senior judge of the Loudoun County Circuit Court, retires this year, he will take something with him-and leave something behind.

What the judge will take with him, according to his colleague on the bench, Circuit Court Judge Thomas Horne, is his experience. The 64-year-old Penn has served on the circuit bench since 1970, appointed after stints as trial judge, county judge and county commonwealth's attorney.

What Penn will leave behind, said the 43-year-old Horne-who called Penn "one of my mentors"-is a changed attitude among lawyers toward the judiciary. Penn is regarded as a superb legal scholar, and lawyers who appear before him "immediately respect his legal ...

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