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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia / Joined 2009 / Former Justice

Menis E. Ketchum II

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Menis E. Ketchum II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Ketchum authored 176 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 64 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Dunn v. Rockwell (201 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. 241 of these were attributed to Ketchum 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
2009	Dunn v. Rockwell	689 S.E.2d 255	201
2016	Samuel Anstey v. David Ballard, Warden· Dissent†	237 W. Va. 411	171
2011	Brown Ex Rel. Brown v. Genesis Healthcare	724 S.E.2d 250	119
2013	Gaddy Engineering Co. v. Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, LLP· Dissent†	231 W. Va. 577	96
2012	Dan Ryan Builders, Inc. v. Nelson†	230 W. Va. 281	91
2013	Brooke B. v. Donald Ray C., II†	230 W. Va. 355	74
2010	Perrine v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.· Concurrence†	225 W. Va. 482	72
2009	Huffman v. Goals Coal Co.	679 S.E.2d 323	71
2013	Credit Acceptance Corp. v. Robert J. and Billye S. Front, etc.· Concurrence†	231 W. Va. 518	69
2009	Fredeking v. Tyler	680 S.E.2d 16	63
2009	State v. Grimes	701 S.E.2d 449	61
2012	Brown ex rel. Brown v. Genesis Healthcare Corp.†	229 W. Va. 382	57
2013	Faith United Methodist Church & Cemetery of Terra Alta v. Morgan†	231 W. Va. 423	56
2014	SER Thornhill Group v. Charles E. King, Jr., Judge· Concurrence†	233 W. Va. 564	55
2015	Deputy J.K. Maston v. Thomas Jefferson Wagner†	236 W. Va. 488	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 282 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 Menis E. Ketchum II on?: Menis E. Ketchum II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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17 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).