HON. BETH WALKER joined the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in 2017 and is the longest-serving member of the Court.  She led the state’s judiciary as Chief Justice during calendar years 2019 and 2023.  She is passionate about public engagement and civics education and is a founding co-host of “Lady Justice:  Women of the Court,” a podcast in partnership with the National Center of State Courts featuring state supreme court justices discussing the judicial branch of government and their experiences on their state’s highest appellate court.  Justice Walker is a former board member of the Conference of Chief Justices and has been active on several CCJ committees including the Artificial Intelligence Rapid Response Team; and Public Engagement, Trust, and Confidence.  She currently serves as a member of the Thomson Reuters Institute/National Center for State Courts AI Policy Consortium for Law and Courts.  Justice Walker also chairs the West Virginia Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being and is an advocate of well-being in the legal profession.  She is a 1987 graduate of Hillsdale College and earned her law degree in 1990 from The Ohio State University College of Law.  For more than 20 years, she concentrated her statewide private practice on labor and employment law and mediation as a partner with Bowles Rice.  Just prior to taking office, she worked for five years as Associate General Counsel for WVU Medicine.  And Justice Walker has a long record of volunteer service to her state and community.  She is a 1999 graduate and former board chair of Leadership West Virginia.  A lifelong Girl Scout, she also served as chair and long-time member of the board of directors of Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council.  Currently, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Charleston.