Marla Graff Decker

{{Short description|American judge from Virginia}}

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| birthname = Marla Lynn Graff

| image = Marla Graff Decker (cropped).jpg

| office = Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals

| appointer = Bob McDonnell (partial term); Virginia General Assembly (full term)

| term_start = November 1, 2013

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| preceded = Larry G. Elder

| succeeded =

| office1 = Chief Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals

| term_start1 = January 1, 2019

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| appointer1 = Virginia Court of Appeals

| predecessor1 = Glen A. Huff

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| office2 = 12th Virginia Secretary of Public Safety

| governor2 = Bob McDonnell

| term_start2 = January 16, 2010

| term_end2 = November 1, 2013

| preceded2 = John W. Marshall

| succeeded2 = Brian Moran

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|05|31}}

| birth_place = New York, New York, U.S.

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| education = {{ubl|Gettysburg College (BA)|University of Richmond (JD)}}

| spouse = Richard Henry Decker III

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| party = Republican

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Marla Graff Decker (born May 31, 1958) is Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. She was appointed as a judge of the Court on October 1, 2013 by Governor Bob McDonnell and took office a month later. From 2010 until her swearing in as a judge, she was the Secretary of Public Safety in Governor McDonnell's cabinet.{{cite web|url=http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_e6d71c00-580a-5244-8381-9647eef2c609.html|title=Decker named to Virginia Court of Appeals|first=Olympia |last=Meola|publisher=Richmond Times-Dispatch}} Judge Graff was elected to a full term by the Virginia General Assembly in January 2014 and re-elected in January 2022, after being elected to a four-year term as Chief Judge of the Court in 2019. She was re-elected as chief judge for another four years, beginning January 1, 2023. {{cite web |url= https://www.vacourts.gov/static/news/items/2023_0118_cav_press_release_chief_judge_decker_2nd_term.pdf |title= The Court of Appeals of Virginia Announces the Re-election of the Honorable Marla Graff Decker as Chief Judge |publisher=Virginia Court of Appeals |date=January 18, 2023}}