Virginia Emerson Hopkins (born May 6, 1952) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
[1] Born in Anniston, Alabama, Hopkins graduated from University of Alabama with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 and later from University of Virginia School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1977.
Following law school graduation, Hopkins was in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1977 to 1978.
On the recommendation of Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, Hopkins was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama by President George W. Bush on October 14, 2003, to a seat vacated due to the death of Edwin L. Nelson.
She assumed senior status on June 22, 2018.