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 1977 / Served to 1994

Thomas B. Miller

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Thomas B. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–2008
Tenure: 1977–1994 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 959 published opinions for the court (1923–1995), plus 60 dissents and 38 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. 197 of these were attributed to Miller 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.· Dissent†	398 S.E.2d 123	2,400
1980	In re R.J.M.· Dissent†	164 W. Va. 496	1,211
1995	Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L.	459 S.E.2d 415	871
1978	Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont	246 S.E.2d 270	392
1982	Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont	289 S.E.2d 692	292
1991	In the Interest of Carlita B.· Concurrence†	408 S.E.2d 365	290
1979	Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co.	256 S.E.2d 879	279
1981	Wanstreet v. Bordenkircher	276 S.E.2d 205	241
1987	State Ex Rel. W.Va. Department of Human Services v. Cheryl M.	356 S.E.2d 181	223
1978	State v. Starkey	244 S.E.2d 219	220
1986	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Pitrolo	342 S.E.2d 156	214
1978	Mandolidis v. Elkins Industries, Inc.· Concurrence†	161 W. Va. 695	211
1992	Andrick v. Town of Buckhannon	421 S.E.2d 247	210
1977	State v. Boyd	233 S.E.2d 710	204
1979	Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.	253 S.E.2d 666	186

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,059 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 Thomas B. Miller on?: Thomas B. Miller 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).