Judge Grady Ford was elected to the Fifteenth Family Court Circuit (Greenbrier and Monroe Counties) in May 2024 and took office on January 1, 2025.

Judge Ford was born and raised in the Greenbrier Valley and graduated from Greenbrier East High School in 2002. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with minors in political science and philosophy, from West Virginia University in 2006. He received a law degree in 2009 from West Virginia University College of Law, where he was an editor of the West Virginia Law Review, Order of the Coif, and graduated at the top of his class.

He spent the first six years of his career in Charleston, as a law clerk to U.S. Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Robert King, practicing business law at Jackson Kelly PLLC, and working in the Charleston City Attorney’s Office. 
In 2015, he joined his father and grandfather at the Ford Law firm PLLC in Lewisburg. Before taking the bench in 2025, he divided his practice between domestic relations and family law, representing municipalities and political subdivisions, and criminal and civil litigation.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

He lives in Lewisburg with his wife and two children.