Justices
The current members of the Court are Chief Justice Brent Benjamin, Robin Davis, Menis Ketchum, Allen Loughry and Margaret Workman.
The Chief Justiceship is a rotating office, which by tradition changes from one Justice to another each year. It brings primarily administrative duties, although the Chief Justice does have the authority to appoint replacements for recused justices under, Article 8, Section 2 of the West Virginia Constitution. (The duty would fall to the longest serving Justice should the Chief Justice him or herself be recused.)
The Court sometimes designates "senior-status" (retired) judges or justices to temporarily fulfill vacancies when required. Other times it will promote a current Circuit Court Judge. By tradition most Circuit Judges are promoted to at least one such case during their careers.
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Famous quotes containing the word justices:
“If the justices would only retire when they have become burdens to the court itself, or when they recognize themselves that their faculties have become impaired, I would grieve sincerely when they passed away, and you would not feel like such a hypocrite as you do when you are going through the formality of sending telegrams of condolence and giving out interviews for propriety’s sake.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)