Governor Jim Justice appointed Judge Adam B. Wolfe to the bench in the Twelfth Family Court Circuit (McDowell and Mercer Counties) and he took office on Sept. 4, 2024. Judge Wolfe was elected in May 2024 to the same seat for an eight-year term that began January 1, 2025.      

Judge Wolfe was born and raised in Philippi, West Virginia. He has a 2003 bachelor’s degree in social work from Concord University and a 2013 law degree from the Appalachian School of Law.

He has practiced law in Southern West Virginia, most recently at the Public Defender Corp. for the Ninth Judicial Circuit (Mercer County).  He also practiced consumer law at Mountain State Justice where he helped West Virginia residents retain their family homes. Judge Wolfe previously was an assistant prosecuting attorney, where he focused on prosecuting felony crimes committed against children. He also operated his own law firm and served as a circuit court law clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Hutchison when Justice Hutchison was a circuit judge in Raleigh County.

Judge Wolfe is a past president and served on the board of the Concord University Alumni Association. He received the Concord University Alumni Association’s Young Alumnus Award in 2014. He is a board member of the Planet X-treme Teen Center, and he is an active member and director of the Rotary Club of Princeton. He also is an assistant scoutmaster in Boy Scout Troop 1 in Princeton and is on the District Committee for the Mountain Dominion District of the Buckskin Council, Boy Scouts of America.