Lemuel Franklin Smith (April 21, 1890 – October 15, 1956) was a Virginia, legislator, lawyer and judge.
Smith was born in Albemarle County, Virginia on April 21, 1890.
[1] He attended Randolph Macon College, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Shortly after that, he and John S. Battle opened a law office in Charlottesville.
He was a member of Charlottesville's City Council, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Commonwealth's Attorney for Albemarle County, judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit and, in 1951, was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.