Judge Sarah Dixon was appointed to the bench in the Sixth Family Court Circuit (Cabell County) and took office on July 10, 2024, to a term that ended December 31, 2024. Judge Dixon was elected to an eight-year term on the same seat on May 14, 2024, and that term began on January 1, 2025.

Judge Dixon was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude from Miami University of Ohio with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in American literature. She obtained her law degree at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Before taking office, Judge Dixon’s legal career primarily focused on family law. She opened her own law office in January 2013. In November of 2014, she began working as a Cabell County assistant prosecuting attorney, focusing on child abuse and neglect cases. She later returned to private practice and consistently represented children in circuit and family court as well as adults in divorce, custody, domestic violence, guardianship, and grandparents’ rights cases in West Virginia family courts. Judge Dixon was the adoption lawyer for hundreds of families.

Judge Dixon is the granddaughter of the late Cabell County Magistrate Betty Wolford and the daughter of business owners and employers, Shawn and Cary Dixon of Huntington, West Virginia.