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 1999 / Served to 2000

George M. Scott

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

George M. Scott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1999–2000 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 20 published opinions for the court (2000–2001), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Vance (284 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. 10 of these were attributed to Scott 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
2000	State v. Vance	535 S.E.2d 484	284
2001	Aikens v. Debow	541 S.E.2d 576	156
2000	Cahill v. Mercer County Board of Education	539 S.E.2d 437	126
2000	Smith v. Animal Urgent Care, Inc.	542 S.E.2d 827	41
2000	Stone v. St. Joseph's Hosp. of Parkersburg· Concurrence†	538 S.E.2d 389	39
2001	Pleasants v. Alliance Corp.	543 S.E.2d 320	25
2000	Czaja v. Czaja	537 S.E.2d 908	25
2000	State Ex Rel. Crafton v. Burnside· Dissent†	528 S.E.2d 768	24
2000	Kanagy v. Fiesta Salons, Inc.	541 S.E.2d 616	23
2000	MacLay v. Jones	542 S.E.2d 83	18
2000	State v. Bruffey	531 S.E.2d 332	18
2000	State Ex Rel. Carenbauer v. Hechler	542 S.E.2d 405	16
2000	State v. Poling	531 S.E.2d 678	15
2001	State v. Somerlot	544 S.E.2d 52	13
2000	Bass v. Coltelli-Rose· Dissent†	536 S.E.2d 494	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 George M. Scott on?: George M. Scott 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).