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 1989 / Served to 1999

Margaret L. Workman

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Margaret L. Workman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1989–1999 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–
2009	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University
West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Workman authored 318 published opinions for the court (1989–2012), plus 45 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Edward Charles L. (2,400 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. 142 of these were attributed to Workman 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
1990	State v. Edward Charles L.	398 S.E.2d 123	2,400
1995	State v. Guthrie· Concurrence†	461 S.E.2d 163	1,064
1991	James M. v. Maynard	408 S.E.2d 401	322
1996	Muscatell v. Cline· Dissent†	474 S.E.2d 518	291
1991	In the Interest of Carlita B.	408 S.E.2d 365	290
1992	Andrick v. Town of Buckhannon· Dissent†	421 S.E.2d 247	210
1995	State, Department of Health & Human Resources Ex Rel. Robert Michael B. v. Robert Morris N.	466 S.E.2d 827	195
1996	State Ex Rel. Amy M. v. Kaufman	470 S.E.2d 205	185
1989	Michael K.T. v. Tina L.T.	387 S.E.2d 866	167
1996	West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, Ex Rel. Wright v. Doris S.	475 S.E.2d 865	158
1992	State v. Triplett	421 S.E.2d 511	123
1998	Kessel v. Leavitt· Concurrence†	511 S.E.2d 720	122
1998	Tiernan v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.· Concurrence†	506 S.E.2d 578	116
1998	Office of Lawyer Disciplinary Counsel v. Jordan	513 S.E.2d 722	111
1995	Tanner v. Rite Aid of West Virginia, Inc.	461 S.E.2d 149	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 404 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 Margaret L. Workman on?: Margaret L. Workman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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10 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).