Judge Cohee was elected in May 2016 to the bench in the then-Twenty-Third Judicial Circuit (Berkeley, Jefferson, and Mogan Counties) and re-elected in 2024 to the newly formed Twenty-Eighth Judicial Circuit (Jefferson County). She presides over all types of circuit court cases including civil, felony, abuse and neglect, and juvenile cases. Judge Cohee also serves on the Judicial Investigation Commission and the Court Improvement Project, supervises Jefferson County Youth Treatment Court, and has been appointed to sit on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to hear cases in which a Justice was recused.

Judge Cohee is a member of the Executive Committee for the West Virginia Judicial Association and co-chairs the Education Committee. Judge Cohee is active on the Women in the Profession (WIP) Committee of the West Virginia State Bar and co-chairs the annual Law Day contest for students in grades K-12

Prior to her election, Judge Cohee practiced law as a civil defense attorney for 16 years and was the managing member of the Martinsburg office of Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC. She also accepted court-appointed cases representing children as their guardian ad litem in abuse and neglect cases.

Judge Cohee has served on the West Virginia University College of Law Visiting Committee, the Shepherd University Board of Governors, and the United Way of the Eastern Panhandle Board of Directors.

Judge Cohee earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mt. St. Mary’s University, her masters of science degree in education/counseling from the University of Kentucky, and her law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law. She was admitted to practice in West Virginia, Maryland, and before the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Cohee lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with her husband, Gerard Nevin, with whom she has one adult daughter.