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 1950 / Served to 1962

Leslie E. Given

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Leslie E. Given was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1962
Tenure: 1950–1962 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Given authored 214 published opinions for the court (1950–1962), plus 49 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corp. (105 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. 122 of these were attributed to Given 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
1956	Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corp.· Dissent†	141 W. Va. 627	105
1956	Daugherty v. Ellis· Dissent†	142 W. Va. 340	67
1953	Thrasher v. Amere Gas Utilities Co.· Dissent†	75 S.E.2d 376	54
1958	Roach v. Harper	105 S.E.2d 564	51
1951	Brewer v. Appalachian Constructors, Inc.	65 S.E.2d 87	50
1961	Whitney v. Ralph Myers Contracting Corporation	118 S.E.2d 622	46
1959	In Re Settlement of the Estate of McIntosh†	109 S.E.2d 153	46
1956	Walker v. Robertson· Dissent†	91 S.E.2d 468	46
1954	Adams v. Londeree†	139 W. Va. 748	46
1954	State v. Pietranton†	84 S.E.2d 774	43
1951	Wilson v. Hix· Concurrence†	65 S.E.2d 717	43
1950	Moore v. Skyline Cab, Inc.· Dissent†	59 S.E.2d 437	43
1954	Stenger v. Hope Natural Gas Co.†	80 S.E.2d 889	41
1958	State Ex Rel. Housden v. Adams· Concurrence†	103 S.E.2d 873	38
1952	State v. Harlow	71 S.E.2d 330	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 273 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 Leslie E. Given on?: Leslie E. Given was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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12 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).