Biography

Warren was educated in Wyoming County public schools. He earned his A.B. in 1960 from Morris Harvey College (University of Charleston), attended West Virginia University Graduate School and earned his J.D. in 1963 from Wake Forest (Baptist) University. He was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar in 1963.

Warren was elected as a West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972 and 1974; served as a member of the Delegate and Senatorial District Executive Committees; served as a delegate to the State Democratic Judicial Convention and the State Democratic Convention.

Justice McGraw has been elected to a greater number of constitutional offices than any other West Virginian. He has served in all three branches of West Virginia government. He received a designation as one of the nation's outstanding legislators from Rutgers University. He also was featured on the National Public Television series Bill Moyers Journal, in "If Elected," a one-hour special on local electoral process.

He received the Friend of Education, Margaret Baldwin Award from the West Virginia Education Association and participated in Marshall University's Taft Lecture Series. He has served as past President of the Jaycees; a member of the Heart Fund; a member of the Wyoming County Cancer Fund; and as past Chariman of the Wyoming County Democratic Executive Committee.

His past employment includes open hearth steel worker, U.S. Steel Corporation; chemical worker, Union Carbide Corporation; U.S. Department of Justice trail attorney (civil rights and vote fraud) Washington, D.C.; legal services attorney; instructor, West Virginia University Extension; and the private general practice of law.

He is a member of the Wyoming and Raleigh County Bar Associations and Rotary International, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Appalachian School of Law, Grundy, Virginia. He is a trustee of the First United Methodist Church in Pineville, West Virginia.