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 1976 / Served to 1976

Donald R. Wilson

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Donald R. Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–1983
Tenure: 1976–1976

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 19 published opinions for the court (1976–1991), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (231 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. 4 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
1976	Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.	225 S.E.2d 218	231
1976	State v. Pendry	227 S.E.2d 210	108
1991	Harshbarger v. Gainer	403 S.E.2d 399	69
1976	Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Donahue	223 S.E.2d 433	59
1976	Committee on Legal Ethics of West Virginia State Bar v. Mullins†	159 W. Va. 647	55
1976	Wooddell v. Dailey	230 S.E.2d 466	41
1976	State v. Noe	230 S.E.2d 826	39
1976	State v. Myers	222 S.E.2d 300	39
1976	State v. McGee	230 S.E.2d 832	30
1976	Thurmond v. Steele	225 S.E.2d 210	24
1976	State v. Knight	230 S.E.2d 732	19
1976	Eisnaugle v. Booth· Concurrence†	226 S.E.2d 259	18
1976	Cook v. Harris	225 S.E.2d 676	17
1976	Benson v. Robertson	226 S.E.2d 447	12
1976	State ex rel. Joint Committee on Government & Finance of West Virginia Legislature v. Bonar†	159 W. Va. 416	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Donald R. Wilson on?: Donald R. Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1976. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).