John Rutherfoord (January 31, 1861 â November 6, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician. A native of Goochland County, he represented it and Fluvanna for one term in the Virginia House of Delegates before being nominated to serve as a judge of Virginia's 9th Circuit Court. The son of Delegate John Coles Rutherfoord, his grandfather and namesake, John Rutherfoord, served as Governor of Virginia from 1841 to 1842.