Allen Hayes Loughry, II (born August 9, 1970) is a former justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
[11] In 2003, he left the attorney general's office to become a law clerk at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
[11] In 2012, Loughry ran as a Republican for a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court and won a 12-year term.
[11] In April 2017, Loughry was selected to serve as Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court for a four-year term.
[19] On June 26, 2018, Governor Jim Justice called the West Virginia Legislature into special session to consider Loughry's impeachment.
[20] Following a series of controversies involving excessive spending, the House of Delegates, on the recommendation of the House Judiciary Committee, voted to impeach Loughry and justices Davis, Workman and Beth Walker on August 13, 2018 "for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors".
[21] On November 9, 2018, Governor Jim Justice called the West Virginia Legislature into another special session to correct the procedural errors of the prior impeachment proceedings.
[22] On November 12, 2018—one day before the state legislature was to convene in special session to consider whether Loughry should be impeached and removed from office—Loughry resigned.