An advisory panel is recommending two Mingo County
The Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission submitted the names of
Teresa McCune and Jonathan Jewel to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Tuesday.
These recommendations come after seven people interviewed to
fill the seat in Mingo
County
The commission also recommended Deloris Nibert to replace former
Putnam County Family Court Judge William Watkins. Nibert was the only applicant
for the position.
Thornsbury pleaded guilty in October to a federal conspiracy
charge and resigned from the bench.
Watkins resigned in November. The state Supreme Court had
suspended him in March until the end of his term in 2016.
]He was accused of delaying rulings, screaming and cursing at
litigants, and failing to enter domestic violence orders into the state's
tracking system.
According to state law, Tomblin can choose one of those names or
pick a replacement of his own.
