- Elizabeth Hanes was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on August 2nd, 2022.
- Previously, she served as a Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, from 2022 to 2022.
- Prior to that, Judge Hanes worked for four years as a civil litigator for a Newport News law firm and for seven years as assistant federal public defender in the Eastern District of Virginia.
- Hanes graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2007 and from the University of Richmond in 2000.