Harold B. Singleton

Harold Brown Singleton (April 19, 1906 – January 17, 1994) was an American lawyer, fourteen-year member of the Virginia House of Delegates and for years judge in Lynchburg and Bedford and Amherst Counties.

Glass High School in Lynchburg (graduating in 1925 after helping charter the local branch of the National Honor Society).

He was active in his church (initially Lynchburg Baptist then Ascension Episcopal Church after the family moved to Madison Heights) and college alumni association, as well as the Lynchburg Lions, Elks, Odd Fellows and the Tau Kappa Alpha and Sigma Tau Delta honor societies.

In 1937 Harold Singleton ordered a set of law books from an advertisement on the inside of a matchbook cover found in a Lynchburg restaurant.

In 1941, he was elected as a Democrat to the Virginia General Assembly to represent Amherst County, with the district expanded two years later to include Lynchburg.