Joyce Morton

Area of practice: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents,
Criminal Law, General Practice.

Joyce Morton has wide experience in both civil and criminal litigation for over 25 years. Her focus area of practice involves representation of persons who have been injured.

Joyce Morton regularly practices in the Circuit Courts of West Virginia and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals as well as in the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia.

In addition, Joyce Morton served as the Chairperson of the Webster County Civil Service Commission and has been a Federal Land Condemnation Commissioner. She is a member of the Juvenile Justice Commission; Key Member of Board of Governors of the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; Member West Virginia University College of Law, Law Institute; former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Webster County, and former member and vice-chair of the West Virginia State Bar Lawyer Disciplinary Board. Joyce has also participated in the West Virginia Supreme Court LAWS Program and has conducted moot court trial programs for local schools.

Joyce Morton received the great honor of induction among those distinguished few as a 2005 Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation, those lawyers whose professional, public, and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and honorable service to the legal profession...

Joyce Morton is married to Michael Carpenter, a professional mining engineer and coal miner. She is the mother of three children: Cristopher Arnold, who lives on the family farm in Gilmer County where Joyce was born and raised; Jasmine Morton, a student at West Virginia Wesleyan College, who intends to seek a career in the legal profession; and Michael Morgan Carpenter, a student at Webster County Elementary School. Joyce has three step-daughters: Erin Carpenter of Florida, Katy Carpenter and Kara Carpenter of Summersville, WV.

Joyce Morton, outside of her practice, devotes her attention to the underprivileged and needy residents of our community. Under her leadership, the attorneys and our staff have adopted the residents of the Webster County Continuous Care Center in Cowen, WV as one of our Christmas projects.

Joyce prefers to act as a secret angel; she is a proponent of random acts of kindness as a means of spiritual growth and personal satisfaction. Because her actions are anonymous we will say no more about them here.

While Joyce Morton and Montie Van Nostrand share equally in their commitment to the law, justice, and the people of West Virginia, their thinking and working styles are different and compliment each other. Montie takes the global view of things (seeing the forest) and Joyce sees every single tree.