Judge Chad Lovejoy was elected to the bench in the Sixth Judicial Circuit (Cabell County) in 2024 and took office on January 1, 2025. 

Judge Lovejoy is a native of Huntington and graduate of St. Joseph’s Central Catholic High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from West Virginia University in 1994 and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1997. At law school, he was elected Editor-in-Chief of Volume 99 of the West Virginia Law Review and inducted into the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers.

After law school, he returned to Huntington to practice law from 1997 to 2023 as a civil litigator in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, completing his practice as a partner with the firm of Duffield, Lovejoy & Boggs, PLLC.

Judge Lovejoy also taught courses in the Legal Assisting Program at Marshall University Community and Technical College from 2000 to 2008. He was a frequent lecturer on the use of technology in both the law office and courtroom.

In 2016, he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, and he was re-elected twice.  While representing portions of Cabell and Wayne Counties, he served as a member of the following committees: Judiciary (Minority Chair); House Rules; Banking & Insurance; Women, Children & Families; and Volunteer Fire Departments & Emergency Medical Services.

Judge Lovejoy previously served on the boards of several Huntington-based charitable organizations, including more than 20 years on the board of the Huntington City Mission.

He and his wife, Sara, live in Huntington. They have four children and one grandchild.