W. Craig Broadwater

Willard Craig Broadwater
Willard Craig Broadwater
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
	In office; July 26, 1996 – December 18, 2006
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Robert Earl Maxwell
Succeeded by	Gina Marie Groh
Personal details
Born	Willard Craig Broadwater; August 8, 1950; Elk City, Oklahoma
Died	December 18, 2006 (aged 56); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Education	West Virginia University (B.A.); West Virginia University College of Law (J.D.)

Willard Craig Broadwater (August 8, 1950 – December 18, 2006) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.

Education and career

Born in Elk City, Oklahoma, Broadwater graduated from Paden City High School in West Virginia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Virginia University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from West Virginia University College of Law in 1977. He was also a Lieutenant in the United States Army from 1972 to 1982. He was in private practice in Wheeling, West Virginia from 1977 to 1983. He was a Hearing examiner for the West Virginia Worker's Compensation Fund from 1978 to 1981. He was a Special prosecuting attorney of Ohio County, West Virginia from 1982 to 1983, and then became a circuit court judge for the First Judicial Circuit of West Virginia, from 1983 to 1996.

On January 26, 1996, Broadwater was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia vacated by Robert Earl Maxwell. Broadwater was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 12, 1996, and received his commission on July 26, 1996. Broadwater served in that capacity until his death, in 2006, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Broadwater died on December 18, 2006, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of complications of cancer.[1]

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Legal offices
Preceded by Robert Earl Maxwell	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia 1996–2006	Succeeded by Gina Marie Groh

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