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This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in West Virginia.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Agnes Jane Westbrook Morrison (1854-1939) was West Virginia’s first female lawyer. [1] Morrison was born in 1854 in Wheeling, Virginia, to Henry Westbrook and Martha Barratt. [2] By 1895, Morrison would become West Virginia College of Law's first female graduate. Her husband Charles Sumner Morrison was a classmate and he graduated the same year.
This category contains articles about lawyers associated with the U.S. state of West Virginia. This category also includes lawyers who resided in the region that would become West Virginia prior to its separation from Virginia in 1863.
In 1992, Thompson was a civil engineer for American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio; [2] he also served as president of Madison Healthcare, Incorporated from 1997 to 2007, and as vice president of Danville Lumber Company from 1994 to 2007. he was an associate at the law firm of Cook and Cook in Madison, West Virginia from 1995 to 2007.
John "JB" McCuskey [1] (born 1981 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American lawyer and politician who is currently serving as the 35th attorney general of West Virginia since 2025. As a Republican, he has previously served as the West Virginia State Auditor from 2017 to 2025.
The attorney general represents the state in all claims processed by the United States Court of Claims, prosecutes civil actions as prescribed by law, enforces the state consumer, antitrust, and preneed burial statutes, and enforces the West Virginia Human Rights Act and the West Virginia Fair Housing Act. [2] The attorney general is also an ex ...
Charles Samuel Trump IV (born October 3, 1960) is an American lawyer serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. He is a former Republican member of the West Virginia Senate. He represented the 15th district, which covers parts of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals ...
He was the brother of former West Virginia State Supreme Court Justice and state Senate President Warren McGraw. He was elected to the state supreme court for a single 12-year term in 1976. He was elected state attorney general in 1992 and re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. [1] He was the only person to have held both offices.