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CHARLESTON – After a legal career highlighted by working to protect children, Margaret Workman rightfully is looking forward to having more time to be a grandmother in retirement.
Workman, who just ended her second stint on the state Supreme Court, was the first woman elected to a statewide position when she won her first Supreme Court race in 1988.
“No, I’m not going back into private practice,” Workman, 73, told
The West Virginia Record in a recent interview. “When this pandemic is over, I am looking forward to having more time to be a grandmother. Margaret Workman with her fellow Kanawha Circuit Court judges in 1983.
CHARLESTON — In spring 1982, Joanna Tabit was readying for her senior year in college and weighing law school when she learned then-Gov. Jay Rockefeller had appointed Margaret Workman as