Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva launches campaign to become W.Va.’s next attorney general
WHEELING — Attorney Teresa Toriseva, a Democrat, has announced her campaign to be West Virginia’s next attorney general.
Toriseva is a Cameron native with 30 years of courtroom experience. A Wheeling resident, she is a graduate of the former Wheeling Jesuit University, and from the West Virginia University College of Law, with high academic honors from both institutions.
She said her Jesuit years found her on academic scholarship while working multiple jobs to make all the ends meet. This taught her the resiliency that served her so well at the WVU College of Law where she was Order of the Coif and Order of the Barrister, a combination rarely achieved.
After law school, she spent 10 years practicing law and helping people in Charleston before moving back to Wheeling where she raised her family and started her own law firm — Toriseva Law. She now has three decades of real courtroom experience fighting all over the state and the country.
“I love being a courtroom lawyer for people. I bring real courtroom experience battling big banks and giant corporations for working people. I have also fought for over ten years to protect public safety by protecting the wages of firefighters, police officers, and other first responders from Weirton to Beckley and Huntington to Martinsburg. My favorite part about being an attorney is being in the courtroom fighting for people. I stand ready to fight for equal rights for all West Virginians,” she said.