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 1999 / Served to 2004

Warren R. McGraw

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Warren R. McGraw was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1999–2004 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

University of Charleston
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, McGraw authored 63 published opinions for the court (1999–2004), plus 68 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (142 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. 101 of these were attributed to McGraw 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
1999	Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.	522 S.E.2d 424	142
2003	Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Concurrence†	576 S.E.2d 807	140
1999	State Ex Rel. Vernatter v. Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary	528 S.E.2d 207	122
2004	White v. Haines· Concurrence†	601 S.E.2d 18	109
2003	State Ex Rel. Medical Assurance of West Virginia, Inc. v. Recht· Dissent†	583 S.E.2d 80	101
1999	Riffe v. Home Finders Associates, Inc.	517 S.E.2d 313	100
2003	Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Scott· Dissent†	579 S.E.2d 550	99
1999	State v. Wallace	517 S.E.2d 20	83
2002	Tennant v. Smallwood· Dissent†	568 S.E.2d 10	79
1999	Mallet v. Pickens	522 S.E.2d 436	76
2002	Walker v. Doe· Concurrence†	558 S.E.2d 290	75
2001	Wellman v. Energy Resources, Inc.	557 S.E.2d 254	74
2004	State Ex Rel. Frazier & Oxley, L.C. v. Cummings· Dissent†	591 S.E.2d 728	64
1999	Maikotter v. University of West Virginia Board of Trustees/West Virginia University	527 S.E.2d 802	52
2002	Repass v. Workers' Compensation Division	569 S.E.2d 162	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Warren R. McGraw on?: Warren R. McGraw was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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5 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).