He filed on January 30, 2016, as a candidate seeking election to the West Virginia state supreme court in 2016, but was defeated.
[citation needed] After earning his Juris Doctor at West Virginia University, he began working under Governor Hulett C.
During his tenure, McGraw upheld the state Freedom of Information Act, ordering that any exemptions that were to be granted related to this legislation were to be extremely limited.
In 1980, he officiated at the wedding of Larry Shannon Roberts, a former WCHS-TV weatherman, and Diana Rhodes Lovejoy, a former West Virginia State Tax Department employee.
The settlement did not require Purdue to admit any wrongdoing or change the way it told doctors to prescribe the drug.
[5][6] While Attorney General, McGraw was criticized by some newspapers, state legislators, tort reform advocates, and the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, who accused him of cronyism,[7] benefiting trial lawyers who contributed to his political campaigns, and inappropriate use of public resources.