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 1998 / Served to 1998

John F. McCuskey

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

John F. McCuskey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1998–1998

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, McCuskey authored 10 published opinions for the court (1998), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Michael M. (270 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 McCuskey 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
1998	State v. Michael M.	504 S.E.2d 177	270
1998	Light v. Allstate Insurance· Dissent†	506 S.E.2d 64	119
1998	Tiernan v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.· Concurrence†	506 S.E.2d 578	116
1998	Arnold v. United Companies Lending Corp.	511 S.E.2d 854	64
1998	West Virginia Human Rights Commission v. Wilson Estates, Inc.· Concurrence†	503 S.E.2d 6	19
1998	McCormick v. Allstate Insurance	505 S.E.2d 454	16
1998	State Ex Rel. Farley v. Spaulding†	507 S.E.2d 376	14
1998	Berkeley County Public Service Sewer District v. West Virginia Public Service Commission	512 S.E.2d 201	13
1998	A & M Properties, Inc. v. Norfolk Southern Corp.	506 S.E.2d 632	13
1998	Pocahontas Mining Co. v. Oxy USA, Inc.· Dissent†	503 S.E.2d 258	10
1998	Mitchell v. Federal Kemper Insurance†	204 W. Va. 543	8
1998	State Ex Rel. Stull v. Davis· Concurrence†	508 S.E.2d 122	5
1998	State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Pawn America	518 S.E.2d 859	3
1998	Harry v. Marion County Board of Education	506 S.E.2d 319	3
1998	Ohio Valley Medical Center, Inc. v. Gatson· Dissent†	202 W. Va. 507	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 17 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 John F. McCuskey on?: John F. McCuskey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1998. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).