The
Governor's Council (also known as the "Council of State" or simply "the Council") was the upper house of the colonial legislature (the
House of Burgesses was the other house) in the
Colony of Virginia from 1607 until the
American Revolution in 1776. Consisting of 12 men who, after the 1630s were appointed by the
British Sovereign, the Governor's Council also served as an advisory body to the Virginia
Royal Governor and as the highest judicial body in the colony.