Meredith Haines was sworn in as a judge in the Twenty-Third Family Court Circuit (Hampshire, Mineral, and Morgan Counties) on January 19, 2024. 

Judge Haines previously was an attorney at Kuhn & Haines, L.C., in Keyser. She received an associate degree in political science from Potomac State College in 2001, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Frostburg State University in 2003, and a law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2006. 

 She is married to John Haines and has two children.