Judge Harley Stollings was elected judge of the Sixteenth Family Court Circuit (Clay and Nicholas Counties) in 2020 and re-elected in 2024.

Judge Stollings was born and raised in Boone County and graduated from Scott High School in 1976. He graduated from West Virginia University in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and received a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1983.

Judge Stollings served as a Nicholas County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney (1985-1989) and was a Mental Hygiene Commissioner, Fiduciary Commissioner, and Workers’ Compensation Hearing Examiner during his years practicing law in central West Virginia.

Judge Stollings’ daughter, Lindsay, now practices law in Charleston, West Virginia.