Judge Leslie L. Maze was elected to a new seat in the Third Judicial Circuit (Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, and Wirt Counties) and took office on January 1, 2025.

She was born in Parkersburg and raised in Elizabeth in Wirt County. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from West Virginia University (1994) and a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law (1998).

She was the elected Prosecuting Attorney of Wirt County (2001-2012) and was a solo practitioner in Elizabeth (2013-2024).  

She is active in her church, the Big Island Run Church. She and her husband, Bradley Snodgrass, have one child.