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 1937 / Served to 1952

Fred L. Fox

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Fred L. Fox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1952
Tenure: 1937–1952 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fox authored 375 published opinions for the court (1937–1995), plus 84 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims (909 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. 47 of these were attributed to Fox 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
1947	State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims	46 S.E.2d 81	909
1995	State v. Lilly	461 S.E.2d 101	234
1941	Miners in General Group v. Hix	17 S.E.2d 810	129
1939	Webb v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.	2 S.E.2d 898	92
1938	Newhart v. Pennybacker· Concurrence	200 S.E. 350	89
1947	Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. v. Gilbert· Dissent	46 S.E.2d 225	81
1946	State v. Wooldridge	40 S.E.2d 899	66
1937	Simpson v. Stanton	193 S.E. 64	66
1946	State v. Huber	40 S.E.2d 11	65
1944	Stone v. Rudolph	32 S.E.2d 742	65
1944	State v. Beacraft	30 S.E.2d 541	64
1948	French v. Sinkford	54 S.E.2d 38	61
1947	West Virginia - Pittsburgh Coal Co. v. Strong· Dissent	42 S.E.2d 46	59
1945	Hark v. Mountain Fork Lumber Co.· Dissent	34 S.E.2d 348	56
1943	Sims v. Fisher	25 S.E.2d 216	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 485 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 Fred L. Fox on?: Fred L. Fox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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15 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).