WHEELING – One of the candidates for a vacant circuit judge position in the Northern Panhandle had a domestic violence petition filed against her in 2011.
According to a report from BigLeaguePolitics.com, Wheeling attorney Elgine McArdle’s daughter filed a DVP against her mother in 2011, but it later was rescinded.
The incident apparently occurred at a Republican Party meeting, according to the Oct. 22 report. The story also says McArdle and the daughter both confirmed the incident. McArdle said she “smacked (her) daughter in the mouth” for being a “smartass.”
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The story also claims there were witnesses and that the assault “was widely known by leaders in the Republican Party in West Virginia.”
As of press time, neither McArdle nor her daughter had returned messages and calls seeking further comment from The West Virginia Record.
McArdle, who also is chairwoman of the Ohio County Republican Party, is one of five candidate interviewing Oct. 24 for a vacancy on the bench for the state’s First Circuit created by the resignation of Judge James P. Mazzone, who became a federal magistrate. The First Circuit consists of Ohio, Brooke and Hancock counties.
The state Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission will interview McArdle as well as Joseph E.Barki III, Matthew Chapman, Joyce Dumbaugh Chernenko and Michael J. Olejasz, all of Wheeling.
