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"CHARLESTON &ndash; Former state Supreme Court Justice Thomas McHugh is among those who have received senior status.<br /><br />The court announced Jan. 8 that it approved senior status applications of McHugh and retiring Circuit Court Judge Thomas Keadle, who will retire from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit (Lewis and Upshur counties) on Jan. 31.<br /><br />The court also approved the applications of 11 magistrates.<br /><br />It will be the second time McHugh has assumed senior status. He was first elected to the court in 1980 but retired in 1997.<br /><br />He began sitting on the court as a senior status justice in 2008 when former Justice Joseph Albright fell ill. Albright passed in 2009, and McHugh was appointed to take his spot until the 2010 election.<br /><br />McHugh won a two-year term in 2010 but did not seek re-election in 2012. Former law clerk Allen Loughry won his spot.<br /><br />Since then, McHugh joined Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff &amp; Love in an of counsel capacity.<br /><br />McHugh is a 1958 graduate of West Virginia University and a 1964 graduate of West Virginia University College of Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif, a legal honorary, and was associate editor of the West Virginia Law Review.<br /><br />In 1974, McHugh was elected a judge in Kanawha Circuit Court, and was re-elected in 1976. He served as Chief Circuit Judge from 1974 until 1980.<br /><br />Keadle, meanwhile, announced last month that he would be stepping down from the bench after 28 years. <a href=\"http://www.wboy.com/story/20330402/judge-thomas-keadle-planning-to-retire-from-bench-after-28-years\">He told WBOY </a>that he wanted to do some senior status work and possibly move to his wife&rsquo;s hometown of Romney, which is in Hampshire County.<br /><br />The 11 magistrates who received senior status are:<br /><br />-William D. Anderson of Marshall County, who was defeated in the Democratic primary after serving a total of 26 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Kim M. Blair of Putnam County, who was defeated in the Republican primary after serving 10 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Joan V. Bragg of Berkeley County, a Democrat who did not seek re-election after serving almost 25 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-D. Frances Davis of Doddridge County, a Republican who did not seek re-election after serving 28 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Charles L. Garvin, III, of Fayette County, a Democrat who did not seek re-election after serving seven years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Donna Jackson of Wood County, a Democrat who did not seek re-election after serving for 20 years as a magistrate. She will become the judge of the West Central Regional Drug Court;<br /><br />-Mary H. Jennings of Raleigh County, a Democrat who lost in the general election after serving for 25 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Janet Kershner-Vanover of Pocahontas County, a Democrat who lost in the general election after serving a total of nine years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-Sandra L. Miller of Berkeley County, a Democrat who did not seek re-election after serving 20 years as a magistrate;<br /><br />-James D. &ldquo;Dan&rdquo; Moody of Lewis County, a Republican who lost in the general election after serving 35 years as a magistrate; and<br /><br />-Janice L. Wiseman of Fayette County, who lost in the Democratic primary after serving since her appointment to the post in December 2010.<br /><br />Wiseman previously served 16 years as executive assistant to two Supreme Court Justices and 12 years as magistrate assistant to her predecessor, former Magistrate Joe Parsons."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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