Susan Snowden
Counsel, Jackson Kelly PLLC
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BY JEAN HARDIMAN. One of the finest things
about West Virginians, in the eyes of Berke-
ley County attorney Susan Snowden, is that
they come to each other’s aid without fail.
That is what she tries to do as counsel
in the Martinsburg office of Jackson Kelly
PLLC and as a resident in her lifelong
Eastern Panhandle community. Having
focused her career on the insurance defense
and corporate areas of law, she’s taken very
seriously her role of using her knowledge
and experience to serve clients in their
times of need, all the while spending her
off hours volunteering with her church and
4-H and serving on boards that focus on
everything from health care to business
development to agriculture.
The field of law was something Snowden
decided to pursue during high school,
after she participated in a youth-in-gov-
ernment project at the West Virginia State
Capitol. She earned a degree at Shepherd
University in 1982 before graduating from
the Ohio Northern University Claude W.
Pettit College of Law in 1985. It was the
one time as an adult that she’s lived away
from her home state.
“That was an excellent decision for me, as
I had law classmates from all over the U.S.,
exposing me to a variety of ideas and social-
ization,” she says. “However, I always knew
I wanted to come back to the Mountain
State and practice law in my hometown.”
Snowden feels fortunate to have begun
her career at Martin & Seibert, where she
practiced until 2017, when she made the
move to Jackson Kelly to offer a further
depth of practice to benefit her clients. Her
career has given her exposure to complex
matters, including employment class actions,
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