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 1945 / Served to 1972

Frank C. Haymond

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Frank C. Haymond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1972
Tenure: 1945–1972 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Haymond authored 464 published opinions for the court (1877–1972), plus 64 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York (962 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. 173 of these were attributed to Haymond 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
1963	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York	133 S.E.2d 770	962
1951	State v. Epperly	65 S.E.2d 488	401
1959	State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548†	144 W. Va. 137	369
1959	State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548	107 S.E.2d 353	257
1945	Yuncke v. Welker	36 S.E.2d 410	171
1955	State v. Huffman	87 S.E.2d 541	153
1970	Keffer v. Prudential Insurance Company of America	172 S.E.2d 714	136
1948	State Ex Rel. Lipscomb v. Joplin	47 S.E.2d 221	114
1946	Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County	39 S.E.2d 177	113
1959	West Virginia State Bar v. Earley	109 S.E.2d 420	108
1949	Hereford v. Meek	52 S.E.2d 740	108
1956	Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corp.†	141 W. Va. 627	105
1960	Overton v. Fields	117 S.E.2d 598	102
1954	Hartley v. Crede†	140 W. Va. 133	90
1954	Hartley v. Crede	82 S.E.2d 672	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 540 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 Frank C. Haymond on?: Frank C. Haymond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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26 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).