Judge Laura Sutton was elected to the Twenty-Fourth Family Court Circuit (Berkeley and Jefferson Counties) in May 2024 and took office January 1, 2025.

Judge Sutton was born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, where she graduated from George Washington High School. She has a 1992 bachelor’s degree in English from West Virginia University and a 1995 law degree from West Virginia University College of Law.

At the time of her election, Judge Sutton was a Child Advocate Attorney for the West Virginia Bureau for Child Support Enforcement. For more than two decades she served as General Counsel to the Berkeley County Board of Education. Later, as an attorney for the non-profit Eastern Panhandle Instructional Cooperative, she was Counsel to the Jefferson County Board of Education. Additionally, Judge Sutton practiced education law in private practice with the law firm of Bowles Rice. She began her legal career at Kay, Casto & Chaney.

Judge Sutton has served on the West Virginia Education Alliance Board of Directors. She frequently volunteered in schools and participated in the Read Aloud program. She is active in the local community and is a 2019 graduate of Leadership Berkeley.

Judge Sutton has lived in Martinsburg since 1996 and is the proud mother of two children.