Robin Jean Davis (born April 6, 1956[1]) is an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Following a series of controversies involving excessive spending, the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment for Davis and three other justices on August 7, 2018 "for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors".
[4] After the articles of impeachment were approved by the full House of Delegates, Justice Davis announced her retirement from the Court, effective August 13, 2018.
The timing allowed her seat to be filled through a special election rather than enabling Governor Jim Justice to appoint her successor in the event the West Virginia Senate removed her from office.
[6] Davis is featured in Laurence Leamer's 2013 non-fiction book, The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption in Coal Country.
[7] In December 2014, ABC News reported on controversies surrounding Robin Davis: her ties to attorney Michael Fuller, who helped her raise $37,000 for her campaign; and the sale of a Lear Jet by her husband Scott Segal.
[1] Fall 2012: Davis and Chafin faced Republicans Allen Loughry, a law clerk for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Margaret Workman, and Jefferson County Circuit Judge John Yoder in the November general election.
Davis, who was first elected in 2000, ran for re-election, while Justice Thomas McHugh, kept his pledge to not seek a full term.
[10] Fall 2000: Democratic nominees Albright and Davis faced former state senator John Yoder in the November general election.
Elected to an unexpired term in 1996 after the retirement of appointed Justice Franklin Cleckley, Davis faced former justice Joseph Albright, Delegate and attorney Evan Jenkins, and WVU Law professor and constitutional law scholar Bob Bastress.
Fall 1996: In the November general election, Davis faced Republican nominee and Cabell County attorney David Pancake.