RE: OPPOSITION TO REAPPOINTMENT OF JUDGE NOLAN DAWKINS 

STATEMENT OF DEANNE ROSE UPSON 

I hereby authorize this statement to be read aloud for all to hear to the Committee on my behalf. 

I respectfully plead with this Committee to recommend to the Virginia Legislature that Judge Nolan 
Dawkins be denied reappointment to 18th Judicial Circuit Court (Alexandria). Judge Nolan Dawkins has 
engaged in gross malfeasance in public office as a Judge for the City of Alexandria Juvenile and Domestic 
Relations Court and the City of Alexandria Circuit Court due to taking a bribe to hear a child custody case 
as a political favor in order to receive a recommendation from my opposing counsel, Marty Gannon, 
Esquire, Chair of the City of Alexandria Family Law Section of the Bar, to be recommended for appointment 
to the Circuit Court for the City of Alexandria in exchange for improperly initiating hearings and having trial 
without having any jurisdiction whatsoever over child custody matters. Judge Dawkins is a Democrat. 
Marty Gannon is a Republican. Judge Dawkins needed more Republican support to get his appointment to 
the Alexandria Circuit Court, and ruthlessly sold my child to my rapist to gain his advancement to the 
Alexandria Circuit Court. 

Moreover, the harm done to me and my infant daughter is immeasurable and cannot be remedied. Due to 
Judge Dawkins taking this bribe, a series of events unfolded resulting in a 2nd de novo child custody trial in 
the City of Alexandria Circuit Court under the now dead Judge Richard J. Jamborsky that resulted in a final 
child custody order that denied me any and all custody indefinitely with my child. Despite that I was judged 
to be a fit mother with no issues who had successfully raised to age 2 ½ my daughter who was judged to 
be a wonderful happy baby until court ordered contact with the biological father, the end result was that 
Judge Richard J. Jamborsky issued a Final Order that required that I acquiesce to Virginia jurisdiction as a 
precondition to ever having any contact with my daughter. Given that Virginia had no jurisdiction according 
to law, that all child custody and child support matters were being adjudicated already in DC Superior Court 
8 months prior to the biological father filing in Alexandria Court, and that I could not acquiesce to Virginia 
jurisdiction; gross injustices violating my and my daughter’s civil rights, Constitutional Rights, human rights, 
and the letter and intent of the Virginia and DC law have occurred. 

My daughter was kidnapped under color of law by an illegal ex parte unnoticed fraudulent child custody 
order that lacks any and all jurisdiction issued by the de novo Judge Jamborsky. Worse, Judge Dawkins set 
this process in motion to the benefit of himself in his malfeasance to gain political favors to get an 
appointment to the Alexandria Circuit Court, in return to the benefit of the biological father, William Earl 
Wallace III, Esquire – my rapist who pursued me fraudulently on the internet because evidence shows he is 
an internet sexual predator. My rapist had threatened me that if I did not have an abortion of my baby, that 
he would arrange that I would never see my baby again. Judge Dawkins was aware of this, and agreed to 
the bribe to hear and bring the case to trial anyway despite lacking any and all jurisdiction. In fact, no 
parties lived in Virginia at the initiation of the rapist case in Alexandria; and all parties lived in DC during the 
entire time of all proceedings in VA and have never resided in Virginia afterward. 

Additionally, I was represented by Glenn Lewis, who was disbarred, is dead, and was found to have a brain 
disorder that harmed many of his clients’ cases. Glenn Lewis was instrumental in arranging the bribe to tie 
my case up in Virginia Courts, while the rapist’s other cases against 2 other known mothers of 4 other of 
his known biological children were tied up in District of Columbia or Maryland Courts. 

No rapist should have any parental rights. Judge Dawkins subjected me and my daughter during hearings 
and trial to extreme and irreversible harm, all in Judge Dawkins quest to gain his appointment to the 
Alexandria Circuit Court. I reported my rape but no police in DC, VA, or MD would take my rape report. I was 
subjected in Judge Dawkins’ J&DR Court to horrendous harassment as a rape survivor that no rape survivor 
should ever be subjected to and wouldn’t have if only the police would have at least taken my report. Marty 
Gannon and Judge Dawkins were so bold about their bribery agreement that they talked openly about it in 
open court on transcript. That transcript is from a September 2005 hearing and the transcript can be 
obtained from Anita Glover and Associates. 

I have tried to appeal, only to be dismissed from the Court of Appeals due to a technicality. I have tried to 
raise these issues with Judge Donald Haddock Sr. only to have him literally scream at me in court to “get 
out of his courtroom because any other court in any other state knows to assert jurisdiction and you better 
not dare to come back.” However, after the rapist filed yet another attempt to jail me in VA with Judge 
Haddock, Judge Haddock issued a capias despite not having jurisdiction, despite the matters being 
adjudicated in DC, and despite that my lawyer was present to represent me and state that VA had no 
jurisdiction. Judge Haddock then sealed the Case to protect all the wrongdoings. After finding no remedy in 
either the Virginia or District of Columbia Courts, I took my case all the way to the United States Supreme 
Court – making it to Committee, but not chosen for Review. I filed a new custody case in DC Superior Court 
– the Court of original jurisdiction and where all parties held domicile during the entire proceedings prior to 
the filing in Virginia and for all years afterward – only to have the District of Columbia judge yell at me to 
“go back to Virginia.” 

Virginia has spent judicial resources for countless hearings, review of documents, and 2 trials for matters 
for which it held absolutely no jurisdiction. Judge Nolan Dawkins initiated this series of events out of 
personal greed, peddling his power in office, political bribery, and a total and utter disregard for an innocent 
mother and innocent infant victimized by a serial rapist internet sexual predator well known to troll the 
internet for victims to satisfy his penchant for sadist masochistic sex – a fact supported by evidence of 
Verified Statement of his ex-wife in her child custody case against Wallace. Judge Nolan Dawkins has 
misappropriated Virginia judicial time and resources for personal gain. 

The harm is immeasurable. My daughter, age 2 ½, was illegally kidnapped by my rapist on December 22, 
2006 – 9 years ago. No court will hear my case due to my rapist – a lawyer himself – fraudulently claiming 
that I must go back to Virginia, which is a clear violation of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and 
Enforcement Act of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and every other state. 

I am a professional woman with the highest level of education and professional achievement. I have an 
MBA from the #2 business school in the USA, study abroad at a world class university, a BS from the same 
top tier US university, and an AS in engineering. I had a very successful career in public service in the United 
States Government having earned a Silver Medal, 2 Bronze Medals, and 10 Special Achievement Awards. I 
was and am well respected in my field. I was actually judged by all judges not just to be a fit mother, but an 
excellent mother. Also, I was diagnosed under court ordered psychiatric testing to be normal; yet the rapist 
and his new wife were judged to be severely mentally disturbed amongst other negative psychiatric 
problems, including the need to be immediately hospitalized. Judge Dawkins has irreparably harmed my 
career, my well-being, my motherhood, and my child’s welfare. 

Judge Nolan Dawkins accepted a bribe to be politically appointed to the Alexandria Circuit Court and 
committed malfeasance in asserting jurisdiction in my case and instigating an excruciatingly harmful 
series of 2 trials and other devastating events including 2 attempts on my life by Wallace, sexual and 
psychiatric abuse of my child by Wallace, and the complete loss of contact between me and my daughter. 
This is aside from the multitude of hearings over the past decade in DC and Maryland courts (Maryland 
never had jurisdiction either), and in US federal courts. These are gross injustices that warrant this 
Committee demand an explanation from Judge Dawkins, review the record in my case including the 
transcripts, and deny Judge Dawkins reappointment to the Alexandria Circuit Court. Additionally, I request 
this Committee use its powers to demand disbarment of Judge Nolan Dawkins. 

I hereby state that all the information stated herein is true to the best of my belief, knowledge, and 
evidence. 

Deanne Rose Upson