Julie Smith Todman

Professional career

• Magistrate Judge of the Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands, serving a four‐year term in the St. Thomas–St. John judicial district, appointed on December 15, 2025
• Todman has 24 years of continuous service in the Office of the Territorial Public Defender, rising to Chief Public Defender in July 2023
• Deputy Chief Public Defender in the St. Thomas/St. John District (2023) and as an Assistant Territorial Public Defender (2001–2023)
• Presiding Judge Jessica Gallivan appointed Todman to a four‐year term as Magistrate Judge pursuant to 4 V.I.C. § 123 and Rule 310.2(a) of the Superior Court
• She has also served as a judicial law clerk for Hon
• Judge Soraya Diase (Superior Court of the V.I.) and U.S. Magistrate Judge Geoffrey W. Barnard (District Court of the V.I.)

Education

• B.A. in Communications from the University of Colorado
• University of Florida’s Levine College of Law — J.D.

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