George Poffenbarger (November 24, 1861 – March 20, 1951) was a lawyer and long-time justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

He attended Rio Grande College in Rio Grande, Ohio and then taught school for seven years.

After studying law under John W. English, a future West Virginia Supreme Court justice, he was admitted to the bar in 1887.

After serving as a justice of the peace for two years, he was elected sheriff of Mason County in 1888.

[2] Poffenbarger married newspaper publisher Livia Nye Simpson in 1894; she died in 1937.