
Judge Constance Thomas was elected to the bench in the Fifth Family Court Circuit (Jackson, Mason, and Wirt Counties) in 2008 and re-elected in 2016 and 2024.
Judge Thomas is a graduate of Point Pleasant High School in Mason County. She graduated magna cum laude from Marshall University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a minor in business. She received a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1995.
Judge Thomas was admitted to the practice of law in West Virginia in 1995. She was a Mason County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney (1995-1999) and practiced law with Shaw & Tatterson, L.C., in Point Pleasant (1999-2004) and at her own firm (2004-2008).
She is married to Christopher E. Thomas and they have one son, Ryan.