Youngest of six children
Graduate of Allegany High School, Cumberland, MD 1965
Attended Potomac State, Keyser, WV, transferred to WVU. Graduated with BS in Business Admin.
Attended Loyola University. MBA program 1.5 years
1974 - 1977 attended University of Dayton Law School—graduated May 1977
1976 Interned at Prosecutor's Office, Dayton, OH
Passed Ohio Bar February ‘77.
Employed as staff attorney by Meade Corp x 1 year (Dayton, OH)
Employed as labor attorney by Lever Bros x 1 year (Hammond, ID)
Private practice 1978 - 1982 Columbus, OH
1982 - 1986 Employed by Fairchild, INC, Beckley, WV as VP and general counsel and eventual President of Fairchild.
Purchased Marathon Industries 1987 President and CEO of Marathon 1987 - 1990.
Opened private practice in Lewisburg October 1990
Admitted to practice law in: -Ohio and WV
-WV Southern District Federal Court
- 4th Circuit Fed Court of Appeals
- US Supreme Court
Other:
Member of American Association for Justice (WV and National)
Named Who’s Who Business leader.
Served as Greenbrier Valley United Way Campaign Chairman
Adjunct Business Professor WV College of Graduate Studies
Has been and active in the courtroom as a criminal and civil trial attorney, having appeared in the courts of 18 counties in WV
Married 37 years to wife met in grade school. Four children and four grandchildren.
Elder, Sunday School teacher, charter member of Emmanuel Community Church, Harts Run,WV
