Judge Jeffrey D. Cramer was appointed to the bench in the Second Judicial Circuit (Marshall, Tyler, and Wetzel Counties) in June 2015. He was elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2024.

Judge Cramer is a native of McMechen, West Virginia. He has a B.A. degree in political science from West Virginia University and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law.  

Judge Cramer began his career in 1997 as an associate at Berry, Kessler, Crutchfield & Taylor in Moundsville. He was a Marshall County Assistant Prosecutor from 1999 to 2005. He was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in 2005, elected in 2006, and re-elected in 2008 and 2012. He was greatly involved in the formation of the Marshall County Drug Task Force and served as a special prosecutor in Ohio, Brooke, Wetzel, and Tyler Counties.

Since taking the bench, he has served by temporary assignments on the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia (ICA) and Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia when an ICA Judge or Supreme Court Justice was recused.  

He and his wife, Denise, live in Marshall County. They have one son.