
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 16, 1995                   TAG: 9502160070
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

COUNTY PROSECUTOR LEAVING

Tony Giorno, Patrick County's commonwealth's attorney since 1984, is resigning to become an assistant prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Roanoke.

Giorno, 43, will begin his new job March 20.

He will fill a new position, giving U.S. Attorney Robert Crouch 18 assistants in the Western District of Virginia - a district that stretches from Big Stone Gap to Winchester.

Before taking over as commonwealth's attorney in Patrick County, Giorno was an assistant in that office for six years. He was an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Lynchburg in 1977-78, and also has served as county attorney in Patrick County since 1981.

Giorno is a 1973 graduate of George Mason University and received his law degree from the College of William and Mary in 1976.

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