Judge Amy L. Mann was elected to the bench in the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit (Monroe and Summers Counties) in 2024 and took office on January 1, 2025.

She was born in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and lived in Covington, Virginia, until age 5, when her family moved to West Virginia. She was raised in Hinton. She received a bachelor’s degree in education from Concord College (now University) in 1986 and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 2002.

She worked briefly for the Summers County Board of Education (1987-1990) as a teacher and then worked as a paralegal for her late father, Perry Mann, at Mann & Mann Attorneys at Law in Hinton (1990-1999) and then was a law partner there in 2002.

She was a part-time Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Monroe County (2003-2005) and Summers County (2003-2006) and part-time Municipal Prosecutor for the Town of Alderson (2004-2009). She was appointed Summers County Prosecuting Attorney in 2007, elected to that position in 2009, and re-elected in 2012.

At the time of her election to the bench, she had been a Mental Hygiene Commissioner in Summers and Monroe Counties since 2017 and was serving her third term on the West Virginia State Bar Character Committee (having been appointed by the Supreme Court).

She was also on the Boards for the Hinton Area Foundation, the Monroe Health Center, the Summers/Monroe County Corrections Board, and was a member of the Summers County Historic Landmark Society.

She received the 2020 Children’s Hero Award from the Monroe Multidisciplinary Investigative Team.

She is a widow and has one son.