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 1996 / Former Justice

Robin J. Davis

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Robin J. Davis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 1996 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 407 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 123 dissents and 112 concurrences. Most cited: State v. BRANDON B. (1,677 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. 383 of these were attributed to Davis 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
2005	State v. BRANDON B.	624 S.E.2d 761	1,677
2004	In re Charity H.· Dissent†	215 W. Va. 208	471
1997	Michael D.C. v. Wanda L.C.	497 S.E.2d 531	455
2000	In Re Emily B.	540 S.E.2d 542	342
1997	Walker v. West Virginia Ethics Commission.	492 S.E.2d 167	309
1999	Shaffer v. Acme Limestone Co., Inc.	524 S.E.2d 688	244
2009	STATE EX REL. FRANKLIN v. McBride	701 S.E.2d 97	232
2015	Gary E. Hammons v. W. Va. Ofc. of Insurance Comm./A & R Transport, etc.†	235 W. Va. 577	207
2009	Dunn v. Rockwell· Concurrence†	689 S.E.2d 255	201
2011	Davies v. Wv Office of the Insurance Commission, 35550 (w.va. 4-1-2011)†	227 W. Va. 330	186
1998	Wickland v. American Travellers Life Insurance	513 S.E.2d 657	183
2002	In Re Daniel D.· Dissent†	562 S.E.2d 147	175
2010	State v. GEORGIUS· Dissent†	696 S.E.2d 18	163
1997	Fayette County National Bank v. Lilly	484 S.E.2d 232	162
2014	West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority v. A.B.· Dissent†	234 W. Va. 492	154

Showing the 15 most-cited of 642 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 Robin J. Davis on?: Robin J. Davis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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29 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).