Elizabeth D. "Beth" Walker (born March 24, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals since 2017.
Thereafter, Walker was "reprimanded and censured" on October 2, 2018, but allowed to remain in office after being the only Justice tried in the West Virginia Senate.
[2] Once Walker took office, West Virginia briefly had a female majority on the state Supreme Court for the first time in history.
[7] Following a series of controversies involving excessive spending, the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee Archived 2018-08-10 at the Wayback Machine voted on August 7, 2018 to recommend that Walker and the other three remaining justices be impeached "for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors".
On October 2, 2018, after a two-day impeachment trial, the West Virginia Senate, in a 32-1-1 vote, decided not to remove Walker from office.
[5][9] Walker is a 1999 graduate of Leadership West Virginia and past Chair of that organization's Board of Directors.