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 1995 / Served to 1996

Arthur M. Recht

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Arthur M. Recht was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1995–1996 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Recht authored 43 published opinions for the court (1995–1997). Most cited: In Re Katie S. (750 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. 5 of these were attributed to Recht 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
1996	In Re Katie S.	479 S.E.2d 589	750
1996	State v. Head	480 S.E.2d 507	238
1996	Gallapoo v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	475 S.E.2d 172	154
1996	Carter v. Carter	470 S.E.2d 193	142
1996	Alkire v. First National Bank of Parsons	475 S.E.2d 122	95
1995	Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Cunningham	464 S.E.2d 181	71
1995	State v. Sutphin	466 S.E.2d 402	68
1996	Phillip Leon M. v. Greenbrier County Board of Education†	484 S.E.2d 909	63
1996	State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Imperial Marketing	472 S.E.2d 792	53
1995	Staten v. Dean	464 S.E.2d 576	51
1996	B.F. Specialty Co. v. Charles M. Sledd Co.	475 S.E.2d 555	46
1996	Yourtee v. Hubbard	474 S.E.2d 613	34
1997	Overfield v. Collins	483 S.E.2d 27	33
1996	Richardson v. Kennedy	475 S.E.2d 418	32
1996	King v. Lens Creek Ltd. Partnership	483 S.E.2d 265	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Arthur M. Recht on?: Arthur M. Recht was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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1 year 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).