Court clerk
In the May Democratic primary, Davis faced Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane; Letitia 'Tish' Chafin, a lawyer and wife of state Senator H. Truman Chafin; Louis Palmer, a Supreme Court clerk; H. John "Buck" Rogers, a lawyer; and, Greenbrier County Circuit Judge Jim Rowe. Chafin and Davis received the Democratic nomination.