Judge Lori Betler Jackson was born in Clarksburg and raised in Nutter Fort. She has a 1986 bachelor’s degree in business from West Virginia Wesleyan College and a 1995 law degree from West Virginia University College of Law.

She was elected to the bench in the Eighteenth Family Court Circuit (Doddridge and Harrison Counties) in 2008 and re-elected in 2016 and 2024. Prior to becoming a judge, she practiced family law for 11 years and was an assistant prosecuting attorney in Harrison and Marion Counties for five years.

Before going to law school, she worked as a certified public accountant.

Judge Jackson is active in her church and previously was a youth soccer coach, C-ball (coach-pitch) coach, and stage mom.  

She and her husband have two adult sons.