Hon.
Omar Aboulhosn

Judge Aboulhosn was born and raised in Princeton. He graduated from Princeton Senior High School in 1985, Concord University in 1989, and West Virginia University College of Law in 1992.

He practiced law in Bluefield at the firm of Richardson and Davis from 1992 to 1994 and Sanders, Austin, Swope, and Flanigan from 1994 to 2008, where he became a partner in 1999.

Judge Aboulhosn began public service as a Mercer County magistrate, a position he held during 1996.  He was Princeton City Court Judge from 1997 to 1999, Mercer County Chief Mental Hygiene Commissioner from 2004 to 2007, President of the Princeton Police Civil Service Commission from 2004-2007 and an elected member of Princeton City Council in 2007.  He was elected judge of the Twelfth Family Court Circuit (Mercer and McDowell Counties) in 2008 but declined to take the seat because then-Governor Joe Manchin appointed him to a new circuit judge position in the Ninth Judicial Circuit (Mercer County). He took office as a circuit judge on January 1, 2009, and was elected to that position in 2010.  Judge Aboulhosn was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge effective January 1, 2016. 

In 2019, Judge Aboulhosn also attended and completed the Mendenhall School of Auctioneering and is a licensed auctioneer in West Virginia and Virginia where he actively conducts live bid calling at estate and consignment auctions.  In 2024, Judge Aboulhosn was named the Rookie League Bid Calling Champion of the WV Auctioneer Association.

Judge Aboulhosn was appointed twice to sit on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to hear cases in which a Justice was recused.  He served as chairman of the WV Supreme Court’s Juvenile Justice Commission and was a member of Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s Intergovernmental Taskforce on Juvenile Justice Reform in 2014.

He is a former member of the board of directors of the West Virginia Association for Justice.  He is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Jonathan Powell Hope Foundation, Inc., which helps families of children with cancer.   He also formerly served as a board member of the Eliza Hope Foundation (Virginia Beach, VA) that provides services to families with children who have autism spectrum disorder. Judge Aboulhosn co-chairs the annual Community Veterans’ Breakfast and Stand Down Event held the first Saturday in November to honor service members and their families with an emphasis of helping homeless and disabled veterans.

Judge Aboulhosn received the 2007 Governor’s Service Award for volunteer community service. An Eagle Scout (1982), he currently serves as a merit badge counselor and as chairman of the Eagle Board of Review for the Mountain Dominion District of the Buckskin Council.  In 2015 he received the District Award of Merit for the Mountain Dominion District of the Buckskin Council.  Judge Aboulhosn was named Citizen of the Year by the Princeton-Mercer County Chamber of Commerce in January 2016. He was named the 2017 American Legion Riley-Vest Post 9 Distinguished Citizen of the Year. In 2018, Judge Aboulhosn was honored with a Tom Downing Fellowship, for his volunteer work, by the East River Ruritan Club which is the highest award a Ruritan can receive.

 For about 20 years, as part of the Mercer County Schools’ mentoring program, he partnered with Montcalm School’s sixth grade class and at the end of the school year he took students on a tour of the Southern Regional Jail.

He serves as Co-Chair of the FMJA Civics Outreach Committee and is one of the three Magistrate Judge members of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Magistrate Judges System.

He and his wife, Weena, have one daughter, Emily.