U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski will retire effective Sept. 30. He is photographed in his office on Sept. 18.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU, The Roanoke Times
Judge Michael Urbanski, standing center, shakes hands with Veterans Treatment Court graduate Ronald Taucher. Fellow VTC graduates Sean Duvall, seated left, and Paul Altepeter, seated center, and probation officers Poe Cobb and Sami Cilek wait for the arrival of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Roanoke Times, File 2014
U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski, who will retire effective Sept. 30, second from left, is pictured with his law clerk team, from left, Linda Kring, Natalie Beers and Jennifer Willis, in his office on Sept. 18.
HEATHER ROUSSEAU, The Roanoke Times
U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski, second from left, talks with his law clerk team, from left, Linda Kring, Jennifer Willis and Natalie Beers, in his office on Sept. 18.
In the summer of 2003, Michael Urbanski was on a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest, driving near Olympic National Park while everyone else in the car slept, when he decided he wanted to be a federal judge.
Judge Michael Urbanski, standing center, shakes hands with Veterans Treatment Court graduate Ronald Taucher. Fellow VTC graduates Sean Duvall, seated left, and Paul Altepeter, seated center, and probation officers Poe Cobb and Sami Cilek wait for the arrival of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski, who will retire effective Sept. 30, second from left, is pictured with his law clerk team, from left, Linda Kring, Natalie Beers and Jennifer Willis, in his office on Sept. 18.
U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski, second from left, talks with his law clerk team, from left, Linda Kring, Jennifer Willis and Natalie Beers, in his office on Sept. 18.
