Joseph Albright

Democrat. Term expires 2012

Largest source of Supreme Court campaign contributions: personal injury lawyers.

First elected to the House of Delegates in 1970, Justice Albright served as Chairman for the Education and Judiciary Committees before being the Speaker of the House of Delegates in 1985-86.

Justice Albright was first appointed to the bench in 1995 by then Governor Gaston Caperton for an unexpired term through 1996. He ran for another full term in 1996 and lost. He ran again in 2000 and was elected to a full 12-year term.

In an April 1996 article in the Charleston Gazette, Albright said, “It is essential that a court of appeals is going to create law.” The same article quotes then state AFL-CIO leader Joseph Powell as saying Albright and fellow Court appointee Justice Arthur Recht as a “dream team.”

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