Judicial/Legal Misconduct*
in West Virginia


*Following are some of the attorneys or judges who have been reported to have been disciplined by the State of West Virginia for unethical conduct, sued for malpractice, arrested, incarcerated, indicted, cannot practice law for one reason or another, whom we understand have been charged with unethical and/or criminal conduct, who have violated the Supreme Law of the Land, have engaged in conduct which tends to defeat the administration of justice or to bring the courts and the legal business into disrepute, etc.

ALBERS, DESIREE LYNETTE
ANSELL, DAVID M.
ARTIMEZ, JOHN E.
ASKIN, STEVEN M.
ATKINSON JR, IRA W. (Magistrate)
BALL, JOHN PATRICK
BARBER, TIMOTHY N.
BATTISTELLI, GEARY M.
BEVERIDGE, BRENT E.
BINKOSKI, DANNY
BOETTNER JR, JOHN L.
BROWN, PATRICIA JEANNE
BROWNING, JUNE GAIL (Magistrate)
BUTCHER, THOMAS L.
CALHOUN, CANDACE K.
CLAY, P. LEE
COLEMAN, LEONARD S.
CRAIG JR, THOMAS L.
CRUICKSHANKS, CAROLYN D.
CUNNINGHAM, ABISHI
DUES JR, THEODORE R.
DUTY, WILLIAM H.
EPLIN, OZELL (Magistrate)
FARBER, MICHAEL C.
FORD JR, RICHARD E.
FRAME, CLARK B.
FRIEND, ROBERT W.
GALFORD, RANDALL W.
GOODMAN, STEPHEN M.
GRUBB, J. NED (Judge)
HAMRICK III, C. PAGE
HARDIN, J. THOMAS
HARDISON, RICHARD E.
HARLESS, DAVID
HESS, RICHARD
HEY, JOHN (Judge)
HRUTKAY, MARK O.
IKNER, GORDON T.
JORDAN, GEORGE W.
KAUFMAN, TOD J. (Judge)
KEENAN, JAMES W.
KING, A. WAYNE
KUPEC, THOMAS W.
LAKIN, L. THOMAS
LAMBERT, SHERMAN L.
LOSCH, LARRY E.
LUSK, TRACY B.
MARKINS, MICHAEL P.
McCORKLE, THOMAS H.
McCORMICK, JEREMIAH F.
MCCORMICK, HELEN (Magistrate)
McCOURT JR, CLARENCE W. “CHARLIE”
McGRAW JR, DARRELL V.
MOORE JR, ARCH A.
NICHOLS, GLENN M.
NIGGEMYER, MICHAEL F.
PENCE, RICHARD F.
PITTS, DONALD L.
POST, DANIEL J.
REESE, RICK (Magistrate)
RICE, JOHN R. (Magistrate)
RIFFLE, BONNIE L. (Magistrate)
RISOVICH, FRED (Judge)
ROARK, JAMES E.
ROBERTS, GERALDINE
SAYRE, TRUMAN LYNCH
SCOTT, JOHN A.
SIGWART II, JAMES F.
SIMMONS, EUGENE M.
SIMS, JOHN G.
STARCHER, LARRY V. (Judge)
SWISHER, C. CRADY
TANTLINGER, WILLIAM A.
TAYLOR, GEORGE S.
TENNANT, DAN (Magistrate)
TOLER, WILLIAM TOM
TROISI, JOSEPH G. (Judge)
TURGEON, MARC P.
VENERI, RANDALL L.
VIEWEG III, GEORGE B.
WADE, KEVIN A.
WHEATON, KEITH L.
WHITE, THOMAS E.



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