By Ashley Perham, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A proud protector, a lifelong learner, a teacher and a great man — that’s how friends and family remembered former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice and Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw Jr. on Tuesday.
McGraw, 88, died Dec. 7.
About 150 people attended his funeral service at the Culture Center, many of them McGraw cousins.
McGraw was a Wyoming County native, a U.S. Army veteran and a West Virginia University graduate.
A Democrat, McGraw won a 12-year term on the state’s highest court in 1976, part of which was spent as chief justice. He was elected attorney general in 1992 and reelected four times before losing to Republican Patrick Morrisey in 2012. McGraw lost a bid to return to the Supreme Court in 2016.
