Justice Larry Starcher

Democrat. Term expires 2008.

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

Justice Starcher graduated from West Virginia University Law School in 1967.

He was in a private practice until 1976, when he was elected Circuit Judge of Monongalia County, where he served for 20 years.

Justice Starcher was elected to the Supreme Court in 1996.

During his campaign for the Supreme Court, Justice Starcher faced ethics charges due to a letter he wrote to the labor council for Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler counties indicating that labor would like the kind of decisions he would make on the court.

Justice Starcher told Delegates of the House Finance Committee in 2003 that he would not be seeking re-election when his term expires in 2008.

Justice Starcher has been reported in the media to have publicly derided a coal company and sworn at a legislator.

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