Judge Gregory L. Howard was elected in 2016 to a seat in the Sixth Judicial Circuit (Cabell County) and was re-elected in 2024.

Judge Howard has served as the Chief Circuit Judge in Cabell County since 2017. He has also presided over the Cabell County Adult Drug Court since 2016. Judge Howard is the Chair of the Mass Litigation Panel and served as a Resolution Judge during the settlement of the Opioid Litigation.

He has a 1995 bachelor’s degree in business administration from Marshall University and a 1998 law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law.

Judge Howard was the first law clerk to the four circuit judges in Cabell County. After one year as a clerk, he became a Cabell County Assistant Prosecutor. As an Assistant Prosecutor, he helped establish the Cabell County Juvenile Drug Court in 1999, which was the first drug court in West Virginia.

From 2004 until he took the bench, he was a partner at the law firm of Bailey & Howard, handling civil and criminal matters. He also served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2006 and was Chief Counsel to West Virginia Secretary of State Betty Ireland.