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Woods was an attorney from Barbour County, served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was a judge on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia 1881-1889.

1. Portrait of Judge Samuel Woods of Philippi, W. Va.

From Left to Right: Louis D. Brandeis, Owen J. Roberts, Willis Van De Vanter, Pierce Butler, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fiske Stone, James Clark McReynolds, Benjamin N. Cardozo and George Sutherland.'

2. Lawyers and Judges of Supreme Court of the United States

From right to left: Stanley Furman Reed, James F. Byrnes, Owen J. Roberts, William Orville Douglas, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Frank Murphy, Hugo Lafayette Black, Robert H. Jackson and Felix Frankfurter.'

3. Judges of The Supreme Court of the United States--Fall Court Term 1941

4. Judge Summers H. Sharp

5. Portrait of Judge Samuel Woods of Barbour County, W. Va.

Portrait of Judge Alpheus F. Haymond who served on the West Virginia State Supreme Court of Appeals, 1873-1883. Photograph scanned from "Bench and Bar of West Virginia", edited by George W. Atkinson, 1919, page 45.

6. Judge Alpheus F. Haymond

Portrait of Judge Homer A. Holt who served six years on the West Virginia State Supreme Court. Photograph scanned from, "Bench and Bar of West Virginia", edited by George W. Atkinson, 1919, page 101.

7. Homer A. Holt

Johnston was also a statesman, a jurist, and an ex-confederate soldier. He published two books, "Confederate Soldier Boy" and "History of New River Settlements and Contiguous Counties". These were published in 1905.

8. Potrait of Judge David E. Johnston, Mercer County, W. Va.

Court of Appeals Judge in western Virginia before he sided with the Confederacy.

9. Judge Gideon D. Camden of Clarksburg, W. Va.

Elected as a member to the 1872 West Virginia State Constitutional Convention and served as WV State Supreme Court Justice in 1876.

10. Matthew Edmiston, Lewis County, W. Va.

Judge Harper Meredith was known for his leadership in the desegregation of Marion County Schools.

11. West Virginia Circuit Court Judge John Harper Meredith, Marion County, W. Va.

12. James H. Miller, Summers County, W. Va.