Judge Cindy Scott was elected on June 9, 2020, to the bench in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Monongalia County, Division 2), to fill the unexpired term of Judge Russell M. Clawges, Jr., who retired. Upon taking the oath of office on June 29, 2020, Judge Scott assumed the role of Chief Judge for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit and will continue serving in that capacity until December 31, 2021.

Judge Scott is a native of Morgantown, West Virginia and graduated from Morgantown High School in 1982. She received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration-Marketing from West Virginia University in 1986, and after a brief career in banking, she returned to school and received a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1994.

Judge Scott began her legal career by engaging in the general practice of law for 12 years, focusing on the representation of defendants in misdemeanor and felony criminal cases and respondents in child abuse and neglect cases, while also serving as a Guardian Ad Litem in child abuse and neglect cases, practicing in Family Court and engaging in Civil Litigation.

From 2006 to 2016, Judge Scott served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney with the Monongalia County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, and in 2016, she joined WVU’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Office of Equity Assurance, where she addressed discrimination, harassment, and intimate partner violence involving WVU’s faculty, staff and students while leading the Prevention and Education Team and reviewing Title IX Case Investigations.

Judge Scott serves as the Judge for the Monongalia County Adult Drug Court, and previously served on the Monongalia County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), the Monongalia/Preston Counties Violence Against Women Act - STOP Team, the Human Rights Committee for the Monongalia County Youth Services Center, and she worked directly with the Court Appointed Special Advocate Program (CASA).

She and her husband, Todd, live in Morgantown and have two adult children. They regularly attend Kingdom: A Community Church.