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 1995 / Served to 1996

Joseph P. Albright

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Joseph P. Albright was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1938–2009
Tenure: 1995–1996 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Albright authored 131 published opinions for the court (1995–2008). Most cited: Muscatell v. Cline (291 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. 3 of these were attributed to Albright 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
1996	Muscatell v. Cline	474 S.E.2d 518	291
2002	In Re Daniel D.	562 S.E.2d 147	175
1996	McCormick v. Allstate Insurance	475 S.E.2d 507	103
1997	Parkulo v. West Virginia Board of Probation & Parole	483 S.E.2d 507	99
1996	Maples v. West Virginia Department of Commerce	475 S.E.2d 410	95
1997	Dodrill v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance	491 S.E.2d 1	88
1995	Clark v. Dunn	465 S.E.2d 374	80
2002	Walker v. Doe	558 S.E.2d 290	75
1996	Riffe v. Armstrong	477 S.E.2d 535	72
2004	Strahin v. Cleavenger	603 S.E.2d 197	70
1996	Page v. Columbia Natural Resources, Inc.	480 S.E.2d 817	66
1996	Marlin v. Bill Rich Construction, Inc.	482 S.E.2d 620	66
2005	NAPOLEON S. v. Walker	617 S.E.2d 801	63
1996	State v. Greene	473 S.E.2d 921	53
2004	State v. Dennis	607 S.E.2d 437	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Joseph P. Albright on?: Joseph P. Albright 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).