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 1957 / Served to 1958

Henry L. Ducker

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Henry L. Ducker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1978
Tenure: 1957–1958 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ducker authored 26 published opinions for the court (1957–1958). Most cited: Jenkins v. Chatterton (46 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. 6 of these were attributed to Ducker 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
1957	Jenkins v. Chatterton	100 S.E.2d 808	46
1958	State Ex Rel. Housden v. Adams	103 S.E.2d 873	38
1958	Hope Natural Gas Co. v. West Virginia Turnpike Commission	105 S.E.2d 630	34
1957	State v. Memorial Gardens Development Corp.†	143 W. Va. 182	28
1958	State Ex Rel. Griggs v. Graney	103 S.E.2d 878	26
1957	State Ex Rel. Favors v. Tucker	100 S.E.2d 411	21
1958	General Electric Co. v. A. Dandy Appliance Co.	103 S.E.2d 310	20
1958	Earl T. Browder, Inc. v. County Court of Webster County	102 S.E.2d 425	16
1958	Consumer Credit Co. of Waynesburg v. Bowers†	143 W. Va. 748	8
1957	Monongahela Power Company v. Shackelford	98 S.E.2d 722	8
1958	Thurston v. Keathley	105 S.E.2d 181	7
1957	Brown v. Brown	97 S.E.2d 811	7
1957	State Ex Rel. Summers v. Sims	97 S.E.2d 295	7
1958	State Ex. Rel. Syphers v. McCune	101 S.E.2d 834	5
1957	State Ex Rel. West Virginia Board of Education v. Sims	101 S.E.2d 190	5

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 Henry L. Ducker on?: Henry L. Ducker 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).