The Supreme Court of West (*60*), Tim Armstead, died on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, at 60 a.m. (West (*60*) Oberster Court of Court of Court)
The Court of Appeal of West (*60*), Tim Armstead, died on Tuesday after a low hospital stay in Morgantown.
According to a spokesman for the Supreme Court, the 60 -year -old armstead had fought a year before his death against a cancer diagnosis.
Armstead from Kanawha County was appointed the highest court in the state by the former governor Jim Justice in 2018. He won a choice this year to serve the rest of this term. In 2020 he won a choice to lose a full term of 12 years on the bench. In 2020 and 2024, Armstead was the highest judge of the state’s Court of Appeal.
“Tim Armstead is a Sterling example for the best of West Virginia,” said Bill Wooton, Supreme Court of the State of the Supreme Court, in an e -mail declaration. “In a very short life, his achievements are legendary for the public service … his skills, talents and character were recognized by his colleagues, his neighbors and his fellow human beings from West Virginians.”
Armstead began his career as a public service in 1985 when he worked as a press practice for the GOV at the time. Arch Moore. In the 1980s and 90s, he worked in a variety of state positions.
In 1998 he was appointed service in the delegate of the State House of Delegates, where he won 10 consecutive elections to keep his seat. When the Democrats checked the legislature in 2006, Armstead became a minority leader of the Republican Caucus in the house, a position that previously held by today’s judiciary of the foreign court, Charlie Trump.
From 2015 to the Supreme Court, Armstead was a Republican spokesman for the Republicans in 2014. He was the first Republican spokesman for the house for 83 years.
In a statement on Tuesday, Trump said that his work of his former legislative and judicial colleague “reflected his great integrity and love for West Virginia and her people. His leadership is painfully missing here at the court.”
Armstead was known as a fiscal conservative as legislature. During the legislative, he directed the adoption of numerous legislative templates that are significantly involved in the political landscape of the state, including Right to work and unauthorized reform of the state legal system.
He was also a convinced supporter of increased transparency and accountability in the government. Under his lead in 2016, the State House said goodbye A bundle of ethics reform laws This received almost unanimous support from members of both political parties.
Armstead continued his tax conservative ideals in the dishes; In 2020, as the top judge, he proposed to reduce the budget of the highest court of the state by almost $ 4 million to ensure that “the judiciary’s budget sets the right priorities and spends the hard-earned money of taxpayers more efficiently”.
This was only two years later Every seated member of the federal state court From the house due to “unnecessary and wasteful” expenses for state taxpayers dollars to renovate their offices. A short-lived top court of the state stopped later This office procedure if they continue.
In his last years at the Supreme Court, Armstead spent time try to recruit Other lawyers to offer children in abuse and neglect in the entire state of the Guardian ad litem services. He started partnerships with numerous organizations to try to encourage law students and other lawyers to take over the cases.
Armstead was strongly involved in his home community of ElkView and campaigned for legislation to support the region after tragic floods in 2016 and to start modern laws on the formation of law for pupils at Herbert Hoover High School.
He is survived by his wife Anna, her daughter Katie and two grandchildren.
Chosen executives mourn and reflect on his inheritance
When the news about Armstead’s death on Tuesday was broken, monuments were flown in by elected officials in the entire government of West (*60*). They noticed his life and shared the family he leaves.
Governor Patrick Morrisey called him an “incredible pioneer” and a “good and decent man who always tried to set the right ethical tone in all his actions”.
The spokesman for the house, Roger Hanshaw, who follows the armstead in the highest position of the house and worked with him for several years in the legislature, said that West (*60*) had lost a “very wonderful person” with Armstead’s death while he personally lost a “wonderful friend”.
Hanshaw, R-Clay, said Armstead was a man of “infectious optimism”.
“He saw the good in everything and all-good, which was too often for others, including me.
“I’ll miss Tim Armstead,” he continued. “I will miss the wise lawyer whom he has given me in times of complex decisions. I will miss the carefree jokes that he visited me after a long day on the house floor, and I will miss that no matter what else I met in my career, I could conspire in my career, that I was more and more a man who was in society with the highest level, in our society, from the Surge. I struck me through the magnifying glass.
The President of the Senate, Randy Smith, who worked for Armstead for the first time in 2013, said Armstead had “an example of honesty, integrity, faith and service that was unsurpassed.”
“Everyone who was blessed to call him a friend and colleague are better people because of him,” Smith continued. “During her time of grief, my heart is with his family and I pray, they find comfort in the arms of our Lord.”
The chairman of the Democratic Party in West (*60*), del. Mike Puschkin called Armstead a “committed official”. Puschkin, D-Kanawha, served during his spokeswoman in the minority party Under Armstead.
“[Armstead] Was a man of deep faith, the forceful beliefs and the serene dignity. As a spokesman, he worked strenuous to promote an environment of collegiality and respect, ”said Puschkin.
The US Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rw.Va, said Armstead was a “dear friend” and “a compassionate, strong and loyal guide”. She said She will always appreciate “his friendship and the example he set.
The US Senator Jim Justice, Rw.Va., described Armstead as “thoughtful, steady presence” both in the Supreme Court and as spokesman for the West (*60*) House.
“Above all, he took care of West Virginia and our people.” Justice went on.
