Justice Robin Davis

Democrat. Term expires 2012

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

Largest source of campaign funds: family wealth.

A native of Boone County and the daughter of a coal miner, Robin Davis graduated from West Virginia University in 1982.

Justice Davis first ran for state Supreme Court in 1996 to fill a vacant seat. After winning a seat on the bench that year, she left the firm she had started with her husband, personal injury lawyer Scott Segal.

Justice Davis, the court’s member with the most seniority, was elected again in 2000 to a 12-year term.

During her time on the bench, Justice Davis oversaw the creation of the state’s Mass Litigation Panel.

Justice Davis and husband were recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal. [Click here to read story]

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