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 2022 / Active

C. Haley Bunn

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

C. Haley Bunn is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, serving since 2022. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2022 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2022	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bunn authored 0 published opinions for the court (2026), plus 3 concurrences.

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 3 of these were attributed to Bunn 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
2026	State of West Virginia ex rel. State of West Virginia v. The Honorable Joseph Barki, Judge of the Circuit Court of Ohio county, and Shawn Pethtel· Concurrence†	–
2026	Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Brian W. Bailey, A Member of the West Virginia State Bar· Concurrence†	–
2026	State of West Virginia v. Heath Allen Rose· Concurrence†	–

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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 is C. Haley Bunn on?: C. Haley Bunn is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

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4 years on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).