Judge Heather A. Wood was appointed to the bench in the First Family Court Circuit (Brooke, Hancock, and Ohio Counties) in 2018. She was elected later that year and re-elected in 2024.

She received a bachelor’s degree and graduated with departmental honors from the University of New Mexico in 1991. She graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1996. She was a member of the Order of the Barristers, a member of the NITA and ATLA Moot Court trial teams, and a recipient of the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Evidence Workshop and the Oklahoma Trial Handbook Award. She had a limited license to practice law while in law school and worked for the Tulsa County Public Defender’s office.

In 1996, she was employed as a public defender at the First Judicial Circuit Public Defender Corporation in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 2000, she joined the firm of Frankovitch, Anetakis, Colantonio & Simon in Weirton, West Virginia, where she practiced family law, bankruptcy, and general civil litigation.

She has been actively involved in youth soccer in the Upper Ohio Valley, acting as a coach, referee, and board member of a local soccer league.

Judge Wood lives in Weirton with her husband, Jack, and their two children.