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 1975 / Served to 1976

Edwin F. Flowers

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Edwin F. Flowers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1975–1976 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Flowers authored 18 published opinions for the court (1975–1976), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Prete v. Merchants Property Ins. Co. of Ind. (80 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. 8 of these were attributed to Flowers 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	Prete v. Merchants Property Ins. Co. of Ind.	223 S.E.2d 441	80
1976	Louk v. Haynes	223 S.E.2d 780	71
1976	State Ex Rel. Maloney v. McCartney· Dissent†	223 S.E.2d 607	61
1976	State v. Byers†	159 W. Va. 596	55
1975	State v. Arnold	219 S.E.2d 922	45
1976	Casto v. Martin	230 S.E.2d 722	43
1976	King v. Bittinger	231 S.E.2d 239	39
1976	Woodford v. Glenville State College Housing Corp.· Dissent†	159 W. Va. 442	35
1975	Pioneer Co. v. Hutchinson	220 S.E.2d 894	34
1975	Stevens v. Saunders· Concurrence†	220 S.E.2d 887	30
1976	State Ex Rel. Brotherton v. Moore	230 S.E.2d 638	28
1975	State v. Bailey	220 S.E.2d 432	28
1976	Board of Church Extension v. Eads· Dissent†	230 S.E.2d 911	26
1976	State Ex Rel. Johnson v. McKenzie	226 S.E.2d 721	25
1975	State Ex Rel. Trembly v. Whiston	220 S.E.2d 690	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Edwin F. Flowers on?: Edwin F. Flowers 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).