the college’s mock trial team.

In 2004, he graduated magna cum laude from the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. The Virginia State Bar admitted him to practice later that year. While at ASL, Gerald received a number of awards including the Book Award for the top grade earned in the Trial Advocacy, Remedies, and Virginia Practice and Procedure courses. Gerald also served as an Editor for the Appalachian Journal of Law.

After graduating from law school, Gerald began working at Hancock and Skinner, P.C. in Lebanon, Virginia, where he handled personal injury and criminal defense cases. In 2005, Gerald began his career in public service when the Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney for Buchanan County hired him. Soon after that, he became an adjunct professor at ASL, where he taughtfirst year students in the courses of Legal Process I & II.

In 2008, Arrington hung his shingle and formed Arrington Law Office PLC. He represented hundreds of clients facing criminal charges throughout the Commonwealth. While in private practice, judges in four different counties appointed him as a special prosecutor to represent the Commonwealth in cases ranging from theft to homicide. On November 8, 2011, voters elected Gerald as Commonwealth’s Attorney. He resumed his career in public service in the same office in which it began.Reflecting on his first two years in office, Arrington says that he is most proud of the results that he obtained in the cases of Commonwealth vs. Young and Commonwealth vs. Justus. In the Young case, it took the jury less than 30 minutes