George Maywood Scott of Spencer, retired Circuit Judge and Supreme Court Justice, has passed at 86 after a long bout with Parkinson's Disease.
A lifelong resident of Roane County, he attended one-room elementary schools and graduated from Walton High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1946 to 1949, attaining the rank of sergeant.
He attended West Virginia University on the G.I. Bill, receiving his AB degree and named to Phi Beta Kappa in 1952, and his law degree in 1954, with honors, as editor of the West Virginia Law Review.
After law school, he was law clerk to United States District Court Judge Ben Moore for one year and was the law partner of William S. Ryan in the Spencer firm of Ryan & Scott.
He was Roane County Prosecuting Attorney from 1956 to 1964, holding various offices in the West Virginia State Bar, including President-elect in 1972, when he was appointed Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit.
Scott was elected circuit judge three times before retiring in 1987, and served as President of the West Virginia Judicial Association and was then was appointed as a Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals by Governor Underwood November 4, 1999, and served until December 31, 2000, after which he resumed his practice of law in Spencer and was of counsel to the Charleston law firm of Carey, Scott and Douglas.
Scott served as president of the Roane County Chamber of Commerce and the Spencer Rotary Club, as judge advocate of Roane County Post 21 of the American Legion, and as a director of The Traders Bank. He was one of the founders of the Roane County Country Club.
As an attorney, he argued two major cases before the United States Supreme Court. He was one of the founders of Roane General Hospital and served as an officer and board member of that facility for many years. George was the current chairman of the Roane General Hospital Foundation, Inc., at the time of his death.
Scott was the prime moving force in the funding and construction of the present Roane County Courthouse. He was instrumental in bringing much of the commercial and industrial development that Roane County has managed to attract over the years.
Roane Countains said he touched many lives in many positive ways. In 2014, he was named a Distinguished West Virginian by Governor Tomblin.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday at the John H. Taylor Funeral Home, Spencer. Burial will follow in the Snodgrass Cemetery, Gandeeville. Friends may call from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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