Justice Charles S. Trump IV was elected in 2024 to a 12-year term on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. His term began January 1, 2025.

Justice Trump was born October 3, 1960, in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. He received a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University in 1982 and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1985. He spent his legal career at his family’s law firm in Berkeley Springs, Trump and Trump, which has been in existence since 1932.

At the time of his election to the Supreme Court, he was chairman of the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee (2015-2024). He led work on legislation creating the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia, which began operating on July 1, 2022. Justice Trump served in both the Senate (2015-2024) and the West Virginia House of Delegates (1993-2006), representing the Fifteenth Senatorial District (Morgan, Hampshire and parts of Berkeley and Mineral Counties) and the Fifty-First Delegate District (portions of Morgan and Hampshire Counties). He held several other legislative leadership positions, including House Minority Leader (1998-2006) and House Minority Whip (1996-1998). He also was the elected prosecutor of Morgan County (1989-1992).

He and his wife, Susan Johnston Trump, live in Berkeley Springs and have three adult children.