Current seat holder: Tristan Leavitt (Republican).
Keena Leigh Mullins is a community advocate, clean energy entrepreneur and operations executive who says she structures her career around energy innovation. Mullins was raised in a traditional coal mining family and co-founded Revolt Energy in 2019, serving as chief executive officer. She later worked as vice president of operations at Watthub. Mullins has worked as a policy advocate and lobbyist focusing on regional economic diversification, eventually serving as board president of the West Virginia Environmental Council. She says her political focus was shaped by her personal family experiences navigating state mental health and crisis systems. She has centered her campaign around regional economic transition and mental health reform after winning the May 2026 Democratic primary. Her other priorities include protecting local municipal governance, clean-tech manufacturing and workforce retraining, with calls for comprehensive mental health reform, criminal justice diversion programs and protecting municipal local control.
· Candidate campaign website & Ballotpedia (secondary source)
Tristan Lynn Leavitt is an attorney, executive and public official who currently represents District 53 in the West Virginia House of Delegates. He was raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brigham Young University (BYU). He served as student body vice president at BYU. He earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. Leavitt worked in federal service and legislative oversight in Washington, D.C., on staff for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the Senate Judiciary Committee and as Acting Special Counsel at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel for over a decade. In 2018, he was appointed general counsel of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and managed agency operations during a multi-year quorum absence. He was nominated as MSPB Board Member by President Joe Biden. He held that position until 2023. He was first elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 2024.