Judge Gregory A. Tucker was elected to the bench in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (Nicholas County) and took office on January 1, 2025.

Judge Tucker was born in Fayette County and raised in Summersville. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from West Virginia University in 1981 and a law degree from Capital University Law School in 1985.

He spent his legal career at his own law firm, Gregory A. Tucker, P.L.L.C., in Summersville. He was a part-time Administrative Law Judge for Workforce West Virginia (1994-2024), the elected Nicholas County Prosecuting Attorney (1989-1992), the part-time City Attorney for Richwood (2020-2024) and the City of Summersville (1993-2024), and part-time Counsel for the Nicholas County Commission (2022-2024).  

He represented the Eleventh Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate from 2010-2014. The district at the time included Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, and Webster Counties and a portion of Grant County.

Judge Tucker is a past President of Summersville Youth Athletics, a past Board Member of Summersville Regional Hospital and Nicholas Old Main Foundation, and a member of the Summersville Rotary Club.

He is married to Sharon Tucker and has two children and seven grandchildren.