- Elizabeth Hanes serves as a Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, a role she has had since 2020.
- Previously, 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.