The Chesapeake community is celebrating a longtime leader this week as the city prepares to honor retired Judge Eileen Olds with a park dedication ceremony on Thursday.
Judge Eileen Olds Courtyard Park, located behind City Hall in the Great Bridge neighborhood, will be officially dedicated at 4 p.m. Thursday in recognition of Olds’ decades of service to the city.
Born and raised in Chesapeake and a graduate of Indian River High School, Olds made history in 1995 as the first woman and African American judge in Virginia’s First Judicial District. She also holds the distinction of being the longest-serving judge in Chesapeake…