Robin Jean Davis

Retired Justice, Robin Jean Davis was born in Boone County, West Virginia, on April 6, 1956. She is married to Scott S. Segal, Esq. and they have one son, Oliver. Robin Davis earned her bachelor’s degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1978, and her master’s degree and law degree from West Virginia University in 1982. She worked in private practice from 1982 until 1996 at the six-person law firm of Segal and Davis, L.C. where she concentrated her efforts in the field of employee benefits and domestic relations. In 1993, Robin Davis became the first lawyer in West Virginia to be inducted into the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

In 1991, the Supreme Court of Appeals appointed her to the seven-person West Virginia Board of Law Examiners, on which she served until her election to the Supreme Court in 1996. She initially was elected to an unexpired term and was re-elected in November 2000 and November 2012 to full twelve-year terms. Robin Davis retired from the Supreme Court in August of 2018 after having served as Chief Justice in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2014, and is the only person to have served as Chief Justice six times. She re-joined her husband and Segal & Amos, PLLC in October 2019 and is currently concentrating her practice in appellate issues and complex mass litigation.