Judge Catherine “Catie” Wilkes Delligatti was elected to the bench in the Twenty-Seventh Judicial Circuit (Berkeley and Morgan Counties) in 2024 and took office January 1, 2025.

She was raised in Berkeley County and has a 2008 bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Shepherd University. In 2011, she received both a law degree and a master’s degree in business administration from West Virginia University.

She worked at Bowles Rice LLP in Martinsburg from 2011 to 2016 practicing tax, corporate, and municipal law, including acting as city prosecutor. During this time, she was a member of the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation’s Investment Management Committee.

She was elected Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney in 2016 and re-elected in 2000. She served as a member of the Eastern Panhandle Bar Charitable Foundation Board and was previously appointed by Gov. Jim Justice to serve on the West Virginia Sentencing Commission. She was previously recognized as part of The State Journal’s “Generation Next: Forty under Forty.”

At the time of her election to the bench, she was immediate Past-President of the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Association and a member of the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute Executive Council.

She and her husband, Anthony, have two children.