Federal magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Michigan retires

May 11, 2011

Michigan: Federal magistrate judge Virginia Morgan has retired from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, where she served for 26 years. She took office as a magistrate judge in 1985 and left the court on April 29, 2011. Now that she is retired, she plans to continue her lifelong goal to "make the world a better place." "I've tried to do that in this job and in other aspects of my life and I'd like to try to keep doing that," she said. She also plans to stay involved with the girl's camp, Camp Newaygo and with Alpha Gamma Delta, her college sorority.

Morgan began her career as a teacher, working in New Mexico (on a Navajo Indian reservation), California and then Ohio. She earned her law degree from the University of Toledo at night while teaching during the day. She then began her legal career in 1975 as a Washtenaw County Prosecutor. In 1979, she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and, in 1985, she became the magistrate judge of that district.