How do judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia / Joined 2013 / Former Justice

Allen H. Loughry II

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Allen H. Loughry II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1970 · age 56
Tenure: 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University
Capital University

Judicial Record

In our data, Loughry authored 113 published opinions for the court (2013–2018), plus 32 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: In Re: Timber M. & Reuben M. (632 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 187 of these were attributed to Loughry by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2013	In Re: Timber M. & Reuben M.†	231 W. Va. 44	632
2015	Gary E. Hammons v. W. Va. Ofc. of Insurance Comm./A & R Transport, etc.· Dissent†	235 W. Va. 577	207
2016	Samuel Anstey v. David Ballard, Warden†	237 W. Va. 411	171
2014	In Re B.H. and S.S†	233 W. Va. 57	170
2013	Gaddy Engineering Co. v. Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, LLP· Concurrence†	231 W. Va. 577	96
2016	State of West Virginia v. Kenneth Allen Marcum†	238 W. Va. 26	61
2014	SER Thornhill Group v. Charles E. King, Jr., Judge†	233 W. Va. 564	55
2017	Yeshiareg Mulugeta v. Dimitri Misailidis· Concurrence†	239 W. Va. 404	52
2017	Watts v. Ballard†	238 W. Va. 730	51
2015	Teri Sneberger v. Jerry Morrison, d/b/a Jerry Morrison Construction†	235 W. Va. 654	50
2016	Richard Parsons v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.· Concurrence†	237 W. Va. 138	46
2017	Martinez v. Asplundh Tree Expert Co.· Concurrence†	239 W. Va. 612	42
2017	Patrick D. Leggett v. EQT Production Co.†	239 W. Va. 264	42
2016	Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital Assoc. v. Susan Nutter· Concurrence†	238 W. Va. 375	36
2015	State of West Virginia v. Orville M. Hutton· Concurrence†	235 W. Va. 724	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Allen H. Loughry II on?: Allen H. Loughry II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

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13 years on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).