Judge Kelly Pritt was elected to the bench in the Eleventh Family Court Circuit (Kanawha County) in May 2024 and took office on January 1, 2025.

Judge Pritt is a native of Buffalo, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Niagara University in 2003 and a law degree from Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law in 2006.

She has practiced family law since 2006 and has handled adoptions, child abuse and neglect cases, criminal defense cases, real estate transactions and estate planning.

She and her husband, Chris, live in Charleston and have two sons.