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Former Culpeper supervisor jailed on contempt charge

by | Oct 1, 2024

A warrant was issued Friday for the arrest of former Culpeper supervisor and realtor Kathy Campbell after she failed to meet the requirements of her suspended sentence on a contempt of court charge in Rappahannock County Circuit Court.

Campbell is now detained in the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center in Warrenton. According to detention center records, her anticipated release date is Oct. 14. 

Campbell’s case will remain active after her release, according to the circuit court. 

At an August court appearance, Campbell was held in contempt of court for failing to appear in July in relation to a lawsuit claiming she withheld sales commissions from Rappahannock real estate agent Julie Garrett.

On Sept. 20, Judge Charles Sharp sentenced Campbell to a suspended 10-day jail sentence, and gave her seven days to produce documents outlining her financials and real estate assets, and turn over her Hummer vehicle to the Sheriff’s Office. If she failed to do so, she would serve the jail sentence that she is now serving.

Ireland Hayes is a reporter for Foothills Forum, a nonprofit organization that supports local news in Rappahannock County.

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.