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 1997 / Served to 2008

Elliott E. Maynard

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Elliott E. Maynard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1997–2008 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

Florida Southern College

Judicial Record

In our data, Maynard authored 189 published opinions for the court (1997–2008), plus 130 dissents and 59 concurrences. Most cited: Mathena v. Haines (775 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. 236 of these were attributed to Maynard 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
2006	Mathena v. Haines· Concurrence†	633 S.E.2d 771	775
1998	State v. Rodoussakis	511 S.E.2d 469	221
1999	Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.· Dissent†	522 S.E.2d 424	142
1997	In re Joseph A.†	199 W. Va. 438	141
1997	Gaither v. City Hospital, Inc.· Dissent†	487 S.E.2d 901	141
2005	Clifford K. v. Paul S.· Dissent†	619 S.E.2d 138	128
1999	In Re Travis W.	525 S.E.2d 669	110
2003	State Ex Rel. Medical Assurance of West Virginia, Inc. v. Recht	583 S.E.2d 80	101
2006	Estate of Tawney Ex Rel. Goff v. Columbia Natural Resources, L.L.C.	633 S.E.2d 22	95
2000	Meadows v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	530 S.E.2d 676	94
2004	West Virginia Fire & Casualty Co. v. Stanley	602 S.E.2d 483	93
2007	State v. Youngblood· Dissent†	650 S.E.2d 119	86
1998	Elmore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	504 S.E.2d 893	79
1999	State Ex Rel. ACF Industries, Inc. v. Vieweg· Dissent†	514 S.E.2d 176	76
1997	Tudor v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.· Concurrence†	506 S.E.2d 554	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 378 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 Elliott E. Maynard on?: Elliott E. Maynard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

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11 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).