Judge Matthew Delligatti was elected to the bench in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in 2024 and took office on January 1, 2025.

Judge Delligatti is a lifelong resident of Fairmont and a graduate of Fairmont Senior High School. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from West Virginia University (2008) and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law (2011). While at WVU, Judge Delligatti became the University’s 18th recipient of the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship and was also named to the Order of Augusta.

He was elected to the Fairmont City Council at age 20 and became Fairmont Mayor two years later, in 2019, while in his first year of law school.

After law school, Judge Delligatti was a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Irene Berger in the Southern District of West Virginia and later to then-Marion County Circuit Judge Michael Aloi. In 2013, he co-founded Kettering Delligatti Law Offices in Fairmont and later was a sole practitioner (2019-2024), handling a wide variety of civil, family law, and criminal defense cases.

At the time of his election to the bench, Judge Delligatti was a member of the Fairmont Senior High School Foundation, President of the Marion County Community Corrections Board, President of the Marion County Sheriff’s Civil Service Commission, and a member of the West Virginia State Bar District Character Committee.

He is married to Caitlin Rexrode Delligatti, and they have two children.