Section Nine

COUNTIES

County Register

Historical Information

County Officials & Officers

Magisterial District Officers

Statistical Facts & Figures 878 WEST BLUE BOOK

County Coordinator: Jeff Rogers. COUNTY REGISTER Surveyor: Dennis Fisher. Fiduciary Commissioners: Grace Stemple; BARBOUR George Weekley. Formed in 1843 from parts of Randolph, Harrison Coroner: Fulvio R. Franyutti, (D). and Lewis counties; named in honor of Philip Medical Examiners: Rob Jones; Teresa Gray; Pendleton Barbour, distinguished jurist of Amy Campbell; Rick Campbell. Virginia. County Superintendent of Schools: Joseph Super. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Emergency Services Director: Ronald coal, lumber, plastic, buckwheat, dairying, Skidmore. , , poultry, . County Agricultural Agent: Josh Peplowski. 4-H Club Agent: Barbara Wolfe. Barbour County Commission President, Farm Bureau: Sam Miller. 8 North Main Street President, Farm Women’s Council: Pat Philippi, WV 26416 Cochran. Phone: (304) 457-4339 Community Educational Outreach Service Fax: (304) 457-5472 President: Rosemary Bowmar, Moatsville. www.barbourcounty.wv.gov Board of Health: Geneva Mayle; Gary Cunningham; John M. Mosesso; Barbara Municipalities: Belington, Junior, Philippi. Barkley; Denise Leach. County Seat: Philippi. Health Officer: William San Pablo, M.D. Magisterial Districts (3): North, South, West. Public Health Nurse: Jane Rachelle Sutton. Voting Precincts: 16. Sanitarian: Laura Stackpole. Area: 345.41 square miles. Road Maintenance Superintendent: (Vacancy). Population (2010 Census): 16,589.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Philippi, Officers unless otherwise indicated) Chair: Jude McConnell. Circuit Court (19th Judicial Circuit) Secretary: Eloise Hollen. Judge: Alan D. Moats, (D), Thornton. Treasurer: Lynne Snyder. Terms of Circuit Court: Fourth Monday in Members February, May, and October. South District: Sandy Ferguson; Lynn Snyder; Circuit Clerk: Gerald M. Fogg, (D). David Proudfoot; Tim Ferguson. General Receiver: Libby Huff. North District: Eloise Hollen; Joyce Wilson; Circuit Court Reporter: Debbie Arthur, Mark Hollen; Ronnie Martin. Fairmont. West District: Sharon Corley; Tamula Stemple; Adult Probation Officer: Bonnie Viani. Larry Corley; Bob Wilkins. Juvenile Probation Officer: Heather Pride. Magistrates: Kathi McBee; Tina Mouser. Family Court Judge: Beth Longo. REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers COUNTY OFFICERS Chair: Max Grove. Assessor: John M. Cutright, (R), Phillipi. Vice Chair: John Heiss. Board of Education: Eric Ruf; David Everson; Secretary: Kathryn Rose. JoAnne McConnell; Reg Trefethen; Dana Treasurer: Sherman Wilkinson. Stemple. Members County Clerk: Macel L. Auvil, (R), Philippi. South District: Max Grove, Belington; Eleanor County Commission: Phil Hart, (R), president; Jo Grove, Belington; Chad Findley, Belington. Jedd Schola, (D); Timothy L. McDaniels, (R). North District: Timothy McDaniel, Philippi; Terms of Court: First Monday in February, May Kathryn Rose, Philippi. and October. West District: Sherman Wilkinson, Philippi; Prosecuting Attorney: Leckta L. Poling, (D). Blanche McDaniels, Philippi; Charlotte Sheriff:Phillip Ferguson, (D), Philippi. Wilkinson, Philippi; Kenneth Moats, Philippi. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 879

May, and October. BERKELEY Circuit Clerk: Second oldest county in . Created Virginia M. Sine, (D). Court Reporters: in 1772 from the northern third of Frederick Marcy Chandler; Tracy Rice; County (Virginia) and named for Norborne Claudette Gaujot-Turner; Kate Slayden; Kathy Berkeley (Baron de Botetourt), colonial governor Cook. General Receiver: of Virginia from 1768 to 1770. Richard McCune. Chief Probation Officer: Mark Hofe. Magistrates: At Bunker Hill, in this county, in 1726, Morgan Sandra L. Miller; Joan V. Bragg; Morgan founded the first permanent settlement of Harry L. Snow; JoAnn B. Overington; James record in western Virginia. In commemoration of Humphrey. Family Court Judges: this event, the State of West Virginia has erected . Jackson; David P. a monument in Bunker Hill State Park and has Greenberg; David A. Camiletti. placed a marker at the grave of Morgan Morgan, which is in a cemetery near the park. COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: The first Episcopal Church (Christ Church) in Larry Hess. Board of Education: what is now West Virginia was erected at Bunker Dr. William F. Queen, Hill by Morgan Morgan in 1740. Three years later president; Richard Pill; Todd M. Beckwith; (about 1743), the first Baptist church (Mill Creek Dr. Darin Gilpin; Ron Gray. Patrick Murphy. County Clerk: Church) was organized at Gerrardstown. John W. Small, Jr., (R). County Commission: President Douglas E. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Copenhaver, Jr., (R); Vice President James cement and road materials; General Motors; P. Whitacre, (R); Elaine C. Mauck, (R). James DuPont; W. Va. Air National Guard; Guardian Barnhart; Dan Dulyea. Prosecuting Attorney: Fiberglass; Variform Vinyl Siding; Quad Graphics; Pamela Games-Neely, (R). Chief Deputy Prosecutor: FedEx; Orgill, Inc.; Ecolab; fruit, , hay Christopher and grain, dairying, livestock, poultry. Quasebarth. Assistant Prosecutors: Caitlin Bailey, Joseph Berkeley County Commission Kinser, Erin Swisshelm, Gregory Jones; 400 West Stephen Street Christine Riley; Timothy Helman; Cheryl Martinsburg, WV 25401 Saville; Gregory Garrettson; Stephanie Phone: (304) 264-1923 Saunders; Carmela Cesare. Sheriff: Fax: (304) 267-5049 Kenneth M. Lemaster, Jr., (D). County Surveyor: www.berkeleycountycomm.org Paul Lewis Flick. Fiduciary Commissioners: Susan Snowden; Municipalities: Hedgesville, Martinsburg. David DeJarnett; William T. Rice; Dr. Frank County Seat: Martinsburg. Hill, III. County Superintendent of Schools: Magisterial Districts (6): Adam Stephens, Manuel P. Norborne, Potomac, Shenandoah, Tuscarora, Arvon II. County Administrator: Valley. Alan Davis. Emergency Services Director: Tax Districts (8): Arden, Falling Waters, Stephen Allen. Emergency Services Chief Assistant: Gerrardstown, Hedgesville, Hedgesville Town, Edward Martinsburg, Mill Creek, Opequon. Gochenour. City Manager: Voting Precincts: 66. Mark Baldwin. Extension Agent: Area: 324.78 square miles. Mary Beth Bennett. Parks and Recreation Director: Population (2010 Census): 104,169. Stephen Catlett. 4-H Club Agent: Douglas Hovatter. Community Educational Outreach Service COUNTY OFFICIALS President: Ann Koncer. Berkeley County Farm Bureau President: (Post office address Martinsburg, Matt unless otherwise indicated) Ware. Circuit Court (23rd Judicial Circuit) Board of Health: Teresa McCabe, Mary Jane Judges: Gray Silver III (D); David H. Sanders, Rinard; Robert L. Burkhart; George Karso; (D); Christopher C. Wilkes, (R); John C, Rudy Lee Foltz; Dr. Jerry Fogle. Health Director: Yoder (R). Michael Lorensen. Dr. Diana Gaviria. Head Nurse: Terms of Court: Third Tuesday in February, Vickie Greenfield. 880 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Health Department Administration Assistant: Boone County Commission Bill Kerarns. 206 Court Street Sanitarians: Hudson Fowler; Lee Fowler. Madison, WV 25130 Road Maintenance Superintendent: Ronnie Phone: (304) 369-7301 Allen. Fax: (304) 369-7306 www.boonecountywv.org

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Municipalities: Danville, Madison, Sylvester, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Whitesville. Officers County Seat: Madison. Chair: Ken Collinson. Magisterial Districts (3): Districts 1, 2, 3. Vice Chair: Michelle Barnes-Russell. Voting Precincts: 34. Treasurer: Norma Verges. Area: 506 square miles. Secretary: Richard Paden. Population (2010 Census): 24,629. Members Adam Stephens District: Ken Collinson; Virginia Sine. COUNTY OFFICIALS Norborne District: Tony Petrucci; Susan Fink. (Post office address Madison, Potomac District: Norma Verges; (Vacancy). unless otherwise indicated) Shenandoah District: Gary Collins; Michelle Circuit Court (25th Judicial Circuit) Barnes-Russell. Judges: Jay M. Hoke, (D), Hamlin, chief judge; Tuscarora District: David Bender; Lucy Smith. William S. Thompson, (D). Valley District: Richard Paden; (Vacancy). Terms of Circuit Court: Third Monday in January, April, and September. Circuit Clerk: Sue Ann Zickefoose. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Court Reporter: Shelly Kelley, Charleston. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Probation Officers: Jerry Swanson, Hamlin; Officers Matthew Beckett, Hamlin; Alaina Harvey, Chair: Gary W. Kelly. Huntington; Eric Harper, Madison; Scottie Vice Chair: . Stowers, Madison; Stacia Roberts, Madison. Secretary: Betty Combs. Magistrates: Porter Snodgrass, Racine; Charles Treasurer: Pamela Brush. M. Byrnside, Madison. Members Family Court Judges: Cynthia J. Jarrell, Adam Stephens District: H.D. Boyd; (Vacancy). Danville; Scott Elswick, Alum Creek. Norborne District: Ron Caho; Carole Newsome. Potomac District: John Overington; Betty COUNTY OFFICERS Combs. Assessor: Jennings P. Miller, (D), Madison. Shenandoah District: Eric Householder; Board of Education: Mark Sumpter, Madison; Maxine Householder. Danny Cantley, Racine; Joe Tagliente, Jr., Tuscarora District: Keven Justice; Laura Nellis; Charles Gibson, Van; Gary Woodrum, Shifflett. Foster. Valley District: Betsy Plumer; (Vacancy). County Clerk: Gary W. Williams, Comfort. County Commission: Harry Michael Brown, president, Madison; Atholl Halstead, Seth; Eddie Hendricks, Uneeda. BOONE Terms of Commission: First and third Tuesdays Formed in 1847 from parts of Kanawha, Cabell of each month, 10:00 a.m.; last Tuesday of and Logan counties and named for Daniel Boone, each month, 5:00 p.m. noted hunter and explorer, whose home was in the Prosecuting Attorney: D. Keith Randolph. great Kanawha Valley from 1789 to 1795. Sheriff:William Randall White, (D), Wharton. Surveyor: John R. McClure, (D), Foster. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: County Administrative Assistants: James A. Coal, lumber, natural gas; tobacco, strawberries. Gore, Uneeda; Pamela White, Wharton. County Maintenance Director: Kerry R. Dickens, Van. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 881

County Superintendent of Schools: John BRAXTON Hudson, Comfort. Formed in 1836 from parts of Lewis, Kanawha Assistants: Dr. Lisa Beck, Danville; Jeff and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Huffman, Hamlin. Braxton, Virginia statesman and signer of the Emergency Services Director: Greg Lay, Declaration of Independence. Danville. Board of Health: Ona Jane Howell, chairman; Important salt works were formerly located at Tilden Bell, Manila; Doug Bell, Madison; Bulltown and here, in 1772, Captain Bull and Donald Pauley, Racine; Richard Browning, his family and friendly Delaware Indians were Wharton. massacred by frontiersmen. Health Officer: Philip Galapon. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Keither Braxton Game Refuge (6,851.75 acres) is located Baisden, Gordon. in this county.

Sutton Reservoir, area 1,700 acres; provides DEMOCRATIC COUNTY camping, boating, (warm water species), EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE flood control impoundment, trout in tail waters of Officers dam. Sportsman’s paradise--northern pike caught Chair: Sue Ann Zickefoose, Madison. (state record 1970). First Vice Chair: Harry Michael Brown. Second Vice Chair: Gary W. Williams, Burnsville Reservoir provides camping, boating, Seth. fishing, picnic areas and nature trails. The area is Congressional District Vice Chair: Joshua developed for management by the U.S. Stowers. Army Corps of Engineers. Secretary: Lee Ann Dale, Chapmanville. Co-Associate Chairs: Rachael Stephens, Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Julian; Anita Perdue, Nellis. lumber, natural gas; livestock, poultry, dairying, Social/Executive Secretary: Pamela A. White, hay and grain. Wharton; Harold Russell Thomas, Gordon. Treasurer: Susan Baisden, Gordon. Braxton County Commission Members 300 Main Street, PO Box 486 District 1: Anita Perdue, Nellis; Susan Grubbs, Sutton, WV 26601 Whitesville; Ryan Graley, Ashford; Roger Phone: (304) 765-2835 Toney, Ashford. Fax: (304) 765-2093 District 2: Pam White, Wharton; Susan www.braxtoncounty.wv.gov Baisden, Gordon; Emory Carter, Van; Russell Thomas, Gordon. Municipalities: Burnsville, Flatwoods, Gassaway, District 3: Rachael Stephens, Julian; Sheila Sutton. Krueger, Madison; Emory Browning, County Seat: Sutton. Morrisvale; Gary Brown, Madison. Magisterial Districts (4): Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western. Voting Precincts: 18. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Area: 519.70 square miles. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Population (2010 Census): 14,523. Officers Acting Chair: Larry Lyon, Jr. Vice Chair: Donna Gosney. COUNTY OFFICIALS Members (Post office address Sutton, District 1: (Vacancies). unless otherwise indicated) District 2: Elizabeth “Libby” Brown, Wharton; Circuit Court (14th Judicial Circuit) Barry Howell, Van; Chris Dolin. Judges: Richard A. Facemire, (D); Jack Alsop, District 3: Donna Gosney, Madison; Lawrence (D), Webster Springs. Lyon, Jr., Madison; Mark Nelson, Danville. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in February, June and October. Circuit Clerk: Susan Lemon, (D). Court Reporters: Jan Campbell. 882 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

General Receiver: Bernard R. Mauser. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Probation Officers: Jacob Foster; Vickie Britner. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Magistrates: David Singleton; Mary Beth Officers Smith. Chair: Herbert White, Gassaway. Family Court Judge: Robert Reed Sowa. Members Southern District: Scott W. Witman, Strange Creek; Anna R. Witman, Strange Creek. COUNTY OFFICERS Eastern District: (Vacancies). Assessor: Brenda Mollohan. Western District: Irvin (I.J.) Cottrill, Gassaway; Board of Education: Jimmy Huffman, (Vacancy). Exchange; David Hoover, Sutton; Elizabeth Northern District: Eddie W. Williams; Stewart, Sutton; Kathy Parker, Heaters; Van (Vacancy). Carr, Gassaway. County Clerk: Susan K. Lunceford, (D). County Commission: Ronald Facemire, president; Gary T. Ellyson II; George F. BROOKE Skidmore. Created in 1797 from part of County and Terms of Court: First and third Friday of each named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of month. Virginia from 1794 to 1796. Prosecuting Attorney: Kelly L. Hamon. Sheriff:Eddie Wayne Williams. A monument two miles east of Wellsburg marks Fiduciary Supervisor: Tamera Facemire. the spot where stood the first Grimes Golden apple Coroner: Robert A. Stalnaker. tree. County Superintendent of Schools: David Dilly. The first Episcopal Church (St. John’s Church) Emergency Services Director: Sam Mace. west of the Allegheny Mountains in what is now Community Educational Outreach Service West Virginia was erected on the Follansbee- President: Neva Bickel, Gassaway. Eldersville Road in this county in 1793. Extension Home Economist: (Vacancy). President, Farm Bureau: Donald Burroughs. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Board of Health: Diane Cole; Glendon Jones; Sheet steel and tin plant, sheet metal and tin Ronald Facemire; Chris Bright; Eric containers, plastic containers, coal, paper bags and Campbell. boards, tar and chemicals, electric power, glass and Health Officer: Brent Glover, D.O. glassware; dairying, fruit. Sanitarian: William Chris Garrett. Health Nurse: Sissy Price. Brooke County Commission Health Department Administrator: Sissy Price. 632 Main Street Road Maintenance Superintendent: Jack Wellsburg, WV 26070 Belknap. Phone: (304) 737-4024 Fax: (304) 737-4023 www.brookewv.org DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Municipalities: Beech Bottom, Bethany, Officers Follansbee, *Weirton, Wellsburg, Windsor Heights. Co-Chairs: Doug Facemire and Brenda S. County Seat: Wellsburg. Mollohan. *Magisterial Districts (3): Follansbee, Weirton, Members Wellsburg. Southern District: Ronald L. Facemire, Sutton; Voting Precincts: 27. (Vacancy). Area: 92.50 square miles. Eastern District: Brenda S. Mollohan, Sutton; Population (2010 Census): 24,069. Dewey Keener, Jr., Sutton. Western District: Esta L Boggs, Gassaway; *Also in Hancock County. (Vacancy). Northern District: Martha Belle Taylor, Napier; Bernard Butler, Burnsville. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 883

COUNTY OFFICIALS Health Officer: Dr. Joseph DePetro. (Post office address Wellsburg, Health Office Administrator: Karen McClain. unless otherwise indicated) Sanitarians: Howard Bertram; Michael Bolen; Circuit Court (1st Judicial Circuit) Britney Hervey Farris. Judges: James P. Mazzone, (D), Wheeling; Nurses: Norma Provenzano; Sandy Rogers; David Sims, (D), Wheeling; Ronald E. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Craig Wilson, (D), New Cumberland; Jason A. Sperlazza. Cuomo, Wellsburg. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in March, June and November. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Circuit Clerk: Glenda Brooks. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Court Reporter: Julie Kreefer, New Officers Cumberland. Chair: Richard McCullough. General Receiver: Jane D. McGaughy. Members Probation Officer: Terry Stuck (D) Wellsburg District: Michael Traubert; Art Magistrates: Linda J.R. Viderman; Robin L. Sullivan; Della Serevicz; Mary Blum. Snyder. Follansbee District: Richard McCullough; John Family Court Judges: Joyce Dumbaugh Casinelli. Chernenko; William Sinclair. Weirton District: Heidi Sullivan; Stacey Wise; George Kondik.

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: Thomas Oughton, (D), Wellsburg. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Board of Education: Jim Piccirillo, President, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Follansbee District; Brian Ferguson, Wellsburg Officers District; Jim Lazear, Follansbee District; Pam Chair: James Gray. Dudley, Wellsburg; Chad Haught, Weirton. Vice Chair: Roy James. County Clerk: Sylvia J. Benzo, (D), Follansbee. Secretary: Don James. County Commission: Tim Ennis, (D), Treasurer: Lynn Davis. Wellsburg District; Stacey Wise, (D), Weirton Members District; Jim Andreozzi, (D), Follansbee Wellsburg District: Lynn Davis. District. Weirton District: (Vacancies). Terms of Court: Every Tuesday. Follansbee District: (Vacancies). Prosecuting Attorney: Joseph Barki III, Wheeling, (D). Assistant: David F. Cross, (R), Wheeling; William Cipriani, Wellsburg (D); John Kyle, CABELL Wheeling. Created in 1809 from Kanawha County and Special Investigator: (Vacancy). named in honor of William H. Cabell, governor of Probation and Juvenile Officer: Terry Stuck, Virginia from 1805 to 1808. County seat moved (D). from Barboursville to Huntington in 1887. Sheriff:Charles W. Jackson, (D) Surveyor: Mark Wiersbicki. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Fiduciary Commissioner: Wayne Mielke; glass and glassware, alloys of nickel and its Andrew J. Thomas. products, railway and mine cars, clothing, steel County Superintendent of Schools: Kathy rails, chemicals, lumber and its products, natural Kidder-Wilkerson. gas; tobacco, dairying, fruit, poultry, sorghum. Assistant: Marty Bartz. Emergency Services Director: Bob Fowler. Cabell County Commission WVU Cooperative Extension Service 750 5th Avenue Extension Agents, 4-H: Norman Schwertfeger; Huntington, WV 25701 Jason Rine. Phone: (304) 526-8634 President, 4-H Leaders Association: Matt Fax: (304) 526-8648 Stromeyer. www.cabellcounty.org Board of Health: Sylvia Taylor, chair; Vicky Gallo; John Cunningham; Rose Briggs; Joe Ierise. 884 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Municipalities: Barboursville, *Huntington, Sheriff:Tom McComas (D). Milton. Coroner: Julie Maynard. County Seat: Huntington. Director, Emergency Medical Services: A. Magisterial Districts (5): #1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Gordon Merry, III. Voting Precincts: 71. Director, 911 Services: Mike Davis. Area: (2010): 281.02 square miles. County Superintendent of Schools: William Population (2010 Census): 96,319. Smith. 4-H Agent: Matt Keefer. *Part of Huntington in Wayne County. Camp Superintendent: Matt Keefer.

COUNTY OFFICIALS DEMOCRATIC COUNTY (Post office address Huntington, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE unless otherwise indicated) Officers Circuit Court (6th Judicial Circuit) Chair: Bob Bailey. Judges: Chris Chiles, (D); Jane Hustead, (D); First Vice Chair: Nancy Eplin. Paul Farrell, (D); Alfred E. Ferguson, Jr., (D). Second Vice Chair: Eldon Paugh. Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Recording Secretary: Lorrie Crigger. January and May; second Monday in Resident Secretary: (Vacancy). September. Treasurer: Mary Ann Henry. Circuit Clerk: Jeffrey E. Hood, (D). Members Court Reporters: Michelle Hankins; Jeannie District 1: Bob Bailey; Brenda Kay Adams. Hall; Kathryn Little; Joanne Betler. District 2: Chris Crigger; Lorrie Crigger Special Commissioners: Appointed on a case District 3: Joe Fincham; Janet Garten. basis by respective judge. District 4: ; Tonia Page. Probation Officers: Jonny Winkler; Jennifer District 5: Kenny Graybeal. Wells-Browning; Charles McCann; Michelle District 6: John Rice; Monika Rowe. Hunter; Chris May; C. Matt Meadows; Eddie District 7: Joe Hutchinson; Susan Hubbard. Taylor; Christen VanOoteghem; Joshua District 8: Nancy Eplin; Billy Chaffin. Parlier; Jason Adkins; Charles McCann; Jade District 9: David Massie; Janet Artrip. Ginn; Nikita Jackson. District 10: Eldon L. Paugh; Brenda Chapman. Magistrates: Johnny McCallister, (D); Scott Bias,(D); Michael Woelfel, (D); Ron Baumgardner, (D); Darrell Black, (D); Dan REPUBLICAN COUNTY Goheen,(D); Danne Vance, (D). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Family Court Judges: Ronald E. Anderson; Officers Patricia Keller. Chair: T-Anne See. Vice Chair: Monty Fulton. Vice Chair: Tina Hendry. COUNTY OFFICERS Secretary: David Williams. Assessor: Irv Johnson, (D). Treasurer: Nancy Peterson. Board of Education: Suzanne McGinnis Oxley; Members Mary Neely; Rhonda Smalley; Garland “Skip” District 1: Jim Rumbaugh; Donna T. Rumbaugh. Parsons; Karen Nance. District 2: Jesse Davis. County Clerk: Karen S. Cole, (D). District 3: Alvin Boyer; Anne Dandelet. County Commission: Nancy Cartmill, (R); District 4: Janet Butler. Anne Yon, (R); Robert L. Bailey, Jr., (D). District 5: Mary Jane Stanley; Ken Reffeitt. County Manager: Chris Tatum. District 6: Matthew Rorhbach; Sherry Terms of Court: Second and fourth Thursday of McClanahan. each month. District 7: (Vacancy). Fiduciary Commissioners: Steven Flesher; Greg District 8: Mark Morgan; T-Anne See. Howard. District 9: Nancy Peterson; Jim Peterson. Prosecuting Attorney: Sean K. Hammers, (D). District 10: Jean Morris. Assistants: Charles Peoples; Jara Howard Smith; Kellie Neal; Lauren Plymale; Kent Bryson; Jason Spears; Joe Fincham; Sharon Frazier; Sarah Dixon. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 885

CALHOUN president; Robert J. Weaver, (D); Kevin Created in 1856 from Gilmer County and named Helmick, (D). Terms of Court: for John C. Calhoun, eminent statesman of Second Monday, 9:00 a.m. Prosecuting Attorney: South Carolina. In early years the county seat was Shannon Jones Johnson, (D). Sheriff: located in Arnoldsburg, Brooksville and at the Carl Ballengee, (D). Fiduciary Commissioner: mouth of Pine Creek. Richard Frum, (D). Coroner: Rebecca Swisher. County Superintendent of Schools: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Timothy petroleum, natural gas, lumber, RPR Industries; Woodward. Community Educational Outreach Service hay and grain, livestock, poultry, dairying. President: Sue Collins, Rush Run. Calhoun County Commission County 4-H Leaders Association: David PO Box 230 Weaver, President. Extension Agent: Grantsville, WV 26147 Jamie Mullins. President, Farm Bureau: Phone: (304) 354-6725 Dean Miller. Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center, Inc., Fax: (304) 354-6447 Board of Directors: www.calhouncounty.wv.gov Kathy Frederick; Rita Kight; Jean Simers; Ron Blankenship; Harold Municipality: Grantsville. Carpenter; Richard Fitzwater, Wade Farrar, County Seat: Grantsville. Beverly Marks, Kathy Mason. Health Officer: Magisterial Districts (5): Center, Lee, Sheridan, (Vacancy). Road Maintenance Superintendent: Sherman, Washington. Chuck Voting Precincts: 10. Holmes. Little Kanawha Area Development Corp.: Area: 280.20 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 7,627. Diane Ludwig, director; James Sullivan; Donnie Pitts; Kevin Helmick; John Rose; Curtis Garretson; Penny McVay; Alvin Engelke; Bryan COUNTY OFFICIALS Sims, Bob Gunnoe; Joyce Sellers; Garland (Post office address Grantsville, Martin. unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (5th Judicial Circuit) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Judges: Thomas C. Evans III, (R), Ripley; David EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE W. Nibert, (D), Pt. Pleasant. Officers Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Chair: January, May, and September. Michael Hicks. Secretary: Circuit Clerk: Sheila R. Garretson, (D). Jacob McCumbers. Treasurer: Court Reporters: John Berkhouse; Sandra Harold Carpenter. Vice President: Hickman. (Vacancy). Members Commissioners in Chancery: By appointment. Sheridan District: Adult Probation Officers: Justin D. Smith; (Vacancies). Center District: Kimberly Mertz. Richard (Burl) Postalwait. Sherman District: Acting Juvenile Probation Officers: Justin D. Harold Carpenter. Lee District: Smith; Kimberly Mertz. Randall Arnold, Arnoldsburg. Washington District: Parole Officer: Richard Goff, Ripley. (Vacancies). Magistrates: Teresa Carpenter; Richard Postalwait. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Family Court Judge: Larry S. Whited. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers COUNTY OFFICERS Chair: Gaylen Dusky. Vice Chair: Assessor: Jason Nettles, (D). (Vacancy). Secretary: Board of Education: Cynthia Dale; Steve (Vacancy). Treasurer: Whited; Larry Harris, Jenna Jett, Jackie (Vacancy). Members Collins-Frail. Center District: County Clerk: Jean Simers, (D). Gaylen Duskey; Barbara Duskey. Lee District: County Commission: Scottie Westfall II, (D), Linda McCartney; Charlie McKown. 886 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Sheridan District: Judy Wolfram; Frank Magistrates: Charles J Rider, (D); Jeffrey Boggs, Wolfram. (D). Sherman District: Tahonne Mefford. Family Court Judge: Donald K. Bischoff. Washington District: Angela Morris; Robert Kennedy. COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: Teresa Lane, (D). Board of Education: R. B. Legg, president, Indore; Cheryl White, Wallback; David W. CLAY Pierson Jr., Clay; Marshall Morgan Triplett, Formed in 1858 from parts of Braxton, Kanawha Clay; Dave Mullins, Clay. and Nicholas counties and named in honor of County Clerk: Connie Workman, (D). Henry Clay, Kentucky statesman. County Commission: Alex Greg Fitzwater, president, (D); Jerry Linkinoggor (D); Arlene The Golden Delicious Apple originated on Porters Tucker (D). Creek, Clay County. Terms of Court: Second and Fourth Wednesday in each month. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Prosecuting Attorney: Jim Samples, (D), coal, lumber, natural gas, petroleum; hay and Procious. grain, livestock, poultry. Sheriff:Garrett D. Samples Jr., (D), Procious Surveyor: (Vacancy) Clay County Commission Fiduciary Commissioners: Wayne King, (D); 207 Main Street, PO Box 190 Glen Sutton, (D). Clay, WV 25043 Coroner: Cynthia H. Duffield; Leilani K. Phone: (304) 587-4259 Tucker. Fax: (304) 587-4202 County Superintendent of Schools: Kenneth www.claycounty.wv.gov Tanner. Assistant: Michael W. Mullins. Municipality: Clay. Emergency Services Director: Stacy Ruth King. County Seat: Clay. Community Educational Outreach Service Voting Districts (3): A, B, C. President: (Vacancy). Magisterial Districts (5): Buffalo, Henry, Otter, 4-H Agents: Michael Shamblin; Ami Cook. Pleasant, Union. Board of Health: Elizabeth Hubbard, (R); Voting Precincts: 11. Joyce Mclaughlin, (R); Judith Comb,(R); Area: 346.61 square miles. Teddy Underwood,(D); (Vacancy). Population (2010 Census): 9,386. Health Officer: Dr. Lea Pattell, Charleston. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Terry A. Legg, (D), Clay. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Clay, unless otherwise indicated) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Circuit Court (14th Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judges: Jack Alsop, (D), Webster Springs; Officers Richard A. Facemire, (D), Sutton. Chair: Lindy Carper. Terms of Circuit Court: Third Monday in Secretary/Treasurer: Wanita Gray. March, second Monday in July, and first Members Monday in November. District A: Jimmy Duffield, Maysel; Erwin Circuit Clerk: Michael Asbury, (D). Thorne, Ivydale. Court Reporter: Jan Campbell, Sutton; Lauren District B: Wanita Gray; Two Run; Frankie Morrison, Webster Kerr. General Receiver: Wayne King, (D). District C: Lindy Carper, Procious. Probation Officer: Lucy Cruickshanks, (D). Juvenile Probation Officer: Lucy Cruickshanks, (D). Female Probation Officer: Lucy Cruickshanks, (D). SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 887

REPUBLICAN COUNTY COUNTY OFFICERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Assessor: David E. Sponaugle, (R). Officers Board of Education: Chad Evans, president; Chair: Michael D. Boggs. Denver Burnside; Roger Lee Bell; Laura Members Cottrill; Dorothy Pigott. District A: Karen Nicholas, Wallback. County Clerk: Beth A. Rogers, (R). District B: Michael D. Boggs, Maysel; Sandra County Commission: Gregory L. Robinson, Boggs, Maysel; Linda K. Rhodes, Clay. (R); Ralph Sandora Jr., (R); Ronald L. Travis, District C: Leslie Osburn, Indore; (Vacancies). (R). Terms of Court (for all commissioners): First and Third Tuesdays of January, April, July, and October. DODDRIDGE Prosecuting Attorney: A. Brooke Fitzgerald, (R). Created in 1845 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Sheriff: Michael Headley, (R). Ritchie and Lewis counties and named for Phillip Surveyor: Daniel J. Wellings, (R). Doddridge, a distinguished statesman of western Fiduciary Commissioners: Matthew W. Virginia who spent the greater part of his life in Alexander, (D); John Scott, (R); Cynthia J.T. Brooke County, West Virginia. Home county of J. Loomis (N). H. Diss DeBar, who designed the Great Seal and Coroner: Phyllis Posey. Coat of Arms of West Virginia. County Superintendent of Schools: Ora E. Coffman, III. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Emergency Services Director: Charles P. petroleum, natural gas, lumber; livestock, poultry. Heaster. Extension Agent: Zona S. Hutson. Doddridge County Commission President, Farm Bureau: James Foster, New 118 East Court Street Milton. West Union, WV 26456 Community Educational Outreach Service Phone: (304) 873-2631; (304) 373-1840 President: Ethel Nicholson. www.doddridgecounty.wv.gov Board of Health: Lewis E. Knight, chair; William Wysong; Judy Bee; Clinton D. Municipality: West Union. Means; Ora L. Ash. County Seat: West Union. Mental Hygiene Commissioner: Judy Magisterial Districts (4): Beech, Maple, Oak, Pine. McCullough or Keith White. Voting Precincts: 12. Health Officer: Paul D. Davis, M.D. Area: 321.61 square miles. Chief Sanitarians: Mark Whittaker. Population (2010 Census): 8,202. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Anthony Lopez.

COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address West Union, DEMOCRATIC COUNTY unless otherwise indicated) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Circuit Court (3rd Judicial Circuit) Officers Judge: Timothy L. Sweeney, (D). Chair: Mary Ann Gum, New Milton. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday Secretary: Janet Ferguson. in February and July; and fourth Monday in Treasurer: Wilma Balis, Salem. October. Members Circuit Clerk: Dwight E. Moore, (R). Beech District: Ora L. Ash, Salem; Wilma Court Reporter: Debra Fox Windom. Balis, Salem. Master Commissioner: Matthew W. Alexander Maple District: Bryan Ash; (Vacancy). (D). Oak District: Mary A. Gum, New Milton; John General Receiver: Dwight E. Moore, (R). K. Davis, Salem. Probation Officer: Kristen Layfield. Pine District: Charles P. (Pat) Heaster; Janet Magistrates: Olivia Adams, (R); Jamie Lou Ferguson. Moran, (R). Family Court Judges: Lori Butler Jackson; Cornelia Reep. 888 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

REPUBLICAN COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Fayetteville, Officers unless otherwise indicated) Chair: Roger Leggett, West Union. Circuit Court (12th Judicial Circuit) Vice Chair: Thurman Cox, Salem. Judges: Paul M. Blake, Jr., (D), Fayetteville; Secretary: Artice Richards, Salem. John W. Hatcher, Jr., (D), Edmond. Treasurer: Ezra Richards, Salem. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in Members January, May, and September. Beech District: Artice Richards, Salem; Ezra Circuit Clerk: Daniel E. Wright, (D), Oak Hill. Richards, Salem. Court Reporter: Judy Cottle; Jimmy Stewart. Maple District: Kristi McDonaugh, Salem; Commissioners: Philip J. Tissue; Paul O. Clay, John Robert McDonaugh, Salem. Jr. Oak District: Mary Jane Schafer, Salem; Cary General Receiver: Paul O. Clay, Jr., (D). Schafer, Salem. Probation Officers: Janette V. Woodrum; Pine District: Connie Cox, Salem; Thurman Marilyn Ferda; Jerrod White; Jerry Cox, Salem. Willoughby; Jon Kesler. Magistrates: Samuel Parsons, (D); Leonard Bickford, (D); Sharon McGraw, (D), Oak Hill; Danita Young, (D). Family Court Judge: Matt , (D). FAYETTE Created in 1831 from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas and Logan counties and COUNTY OFFICERS named in honor of the Marquis de LaFayette. Assessor: Eddie Young, (D). First court held at New Haven, near Ansted. Board of Education: Steve Bush, president; Lou New River Gorge Bridge, Canyon Rim, Babcock Jones, vice president; Pat Gray; Leon Ivey; and Hawk’s Nest state parks, also Plum Orchard Patsy Holliday. Lake, public fishing area, are located in this County Clerk: Kelvin E. Holliday, (D), Oak county. Hill. County Commission: Denise Scalph, (D), Leading industries and chief agricultural products: president, Fayetteville; Matthew Wender, (D), coal, ferro-alloys, lumber; livestock, dairying. Oak Hill; John H. Lopez, (D) Smithers. Terms of Court: First and last Fridays, monthly, Fayette County Commission unless otherwise advised. 100 Court Street Prosecuting Attorney: Larry Harrah, (D), Fayetteville, WV 25840 Fayetteville. Phone: (304) 574-4290 Sheriff:Steve W. Kessler, (D), Mt. Hope. Fax: (304) 574-4255 Surveyor: Jack Booda, (D), Oak Hill. www.fayettecounty.wv.gov Fiduciary Commissioners: Jamie Blankenship, (D); Philip J. Tissue, (R). Municipalities: Ansted, Fayetteville, Gauley County Superintendent of Schools: Terry Bridge, Meadow Bridge, Mount Hope, George. *Montgomery, Oak Hill, Pax, Smithers, Associate Superintendent: Serena Starcher. Thurmond. Emergency Services Director: Joe Crist. County Seat: Fayetteville. 4-H and Youth Development/ Assistant Magisterial Districts (3): New Haven, Plateau, Professor Youth Development: Andrea Mendor. Valley. Family and Health Extension Agent: Lauren Voting Precincts: 39. Weatherford. Area: 666.50 square miles. Office Manager: Cassandra Bandy. Population (2010 Census): 46,039. CPC/Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent: Brian Sparks. *Part of Montgomery in Kanawha County. Nutrition Outreach Instructor: Kelsey Laubach. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Peggy Gwinn.

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Board of Health: John Frazier; Rose Anne GILMER Michaels; Roy Crist; William Preston; James Formed in 1845 from parts of Lewis and Rappold. Kanawha counties and named for Thomas Walker Health Officer: D. C. Newell, Jr. Gilmer, , 1840-1841, later a Sanitarian: Phil Peron. representative in Congress and Secretary of the Road Maintenance Superintendent: (Vacancy). Navy in President Tyler’s cabinet.

Leading industries and chief agricultural products: DEMOCRATIC COUNTY petroleum, natural gas, lumber; hay and grain, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE livestock. Officers Chair: Marion Tanner, Fayetteville. Gilmer County Commission Associate Chair: Jack Thompson, Fayetteville. 10 Howard Street Recording Secretary: Susan Williams. Glennville, WV 26351 Treasurer: Debbie Bush. Phone: (304) 462-7470 Fayette County Democratic Women: Denise Fax: (304) 462-7994 Eskew Scalph, Ex Officio/President. www.gilmercounty.wv.gov Members New Haven District: Marion Tanner, Municipalities: Glenville, Sand Fork. Fayetteville; Calentha Quesenberry, County Seat: Glenville. Fayetteville; Jack Thompson, Fayetteville; Magisterial Districts (4): Center, City, DeKalb- Donald Beals, Fayetteville. Troy, Glenville. Plateau District: Larry Dotson, Oak Hill; Voting Precincts: 14. Mollie Ray, Oak Hill; Debbie Bush, Oak Area: 342.40 square miles. Hill; Paul Lee, Oak Hill. Population (2010 Census): 8,693. Valley District: Susan Williams, Falls View; Chuck Keenan; Ron Alexander; Linda Richmond. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Glenville, unless otherwise indicated) REPUBLICAN COUNTY Circuit Court (14th Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judges: Richard A. Facemire (D), chief judge, Officers Sutton; Jack Alsop, (D), Webster Springs. Chair: Gary Lilly, Fayetteville. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in Vice Chair: Judith Mackey, Fayetteville. March, July, and November. Secretary: Thomas Fast, Fayetteville. Circuit Clerk: Karen Elkin, (D), Burnsville. Treasurer: James Murdock, Fayetteville. Court Reporters: Jan Campbell, (D), Sutton. Members Probation Officer: Michael Haley, (R). New Haven District: Thomas Fast, Fayetteville; Magistrates: Carol Wolfe, (D); Alton L. Skinner Jim Murdock, Fayetteville; Loretta Munique, II, (D). Oak Hill; Elizabeth Epperson, Oak Hill. Family Court Judge: Larry S. Whited, (R), Plateau District: Richard Mackey, Oak Hill; Grantsville. Wesley Queen, Oak Hill; Judith Mackey, Oak Hill; , Mt. Hope. Valley District: William Hughes, Pax; Randy COUNTY OFFICERS Prince, Danese; Julia Work, Oak Hill; Hollie Assessor: Gary L. Wolfe, (D). Beckwith, Fayetteville. Board of Education: William Simmons, president; Thomas Ratliff; Misty Pritt, Norma Hurley, Carl Armour. County Clerk: Jean Butcher, (R). County Commission: Larry B. Chapman, (D); John D. Bennett, (D); Brian Kennedy, (D). Terms of Court: First and Third Friday of Month Prosecuting Attorney: Gerald B. Hough, (D). Sheriff:Larry Gerwig, (D). 890 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Fiduciary Commissioners: Brenda Lawson; GRANT (Vacancy). Created from Hardy County in 1866 and named Medical Examiner/Coroner: Jesse McVaney. for General Ulysses Simpson Grant. County Superintendent of Schools: Gabriel Devono. The Fairfax Stone, marking the southwestern limit Emergency Services Director: Susan of Maryland, which is determined by the head Kirkpatrick, (D). spring or fountain of the Potomac River, is situated Flood Warning Coordinator: Susan in the extreme western angle of the county. Kirkpatrick, (D). Community Educational Outreach Service Petersburg Trout Hatchery, Spring Run Trout President: Ann Nestor, (R). Hatchery and part of the Monongahela National President, Farm Bureau: Keith Cole. Forest are located in this county. Board of Health: Amanda Frymier, president; Charles Harold, Member; Betty Smith, Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Member; Larry Gerwig, Member; Alecia machinery, printing, polymers, electric power, Edwards, Member coal, lumber; livestock, hay and grain, poultry, Chief Sanitarian: Jack Heater, (D). fruit, maple sugar. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Rodney Pettit, (D). Grant County Commission 5 Highland Avenue Petersburg, WV 26847 DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Phone: (304) 257-4422 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Fax: (304) 257-9645 Officers www.grantcountywv.org Chair: Sandra A. Pettit, Sand Fork. Secretary: Conner Ferguson, Glenville. Municipalities: Bayard; Petersburg. Treasurer: Bob Radabaugh, Sand Fork. County Seat: Petersburg. Members Magisterial Districts (3): Grant, Milroy, Union. Center District: Heather Jamison, Cedarville; Voting Precincts: 16. (Vacancy). Area: 478 square miles. City District: Stephen Dye, Glenville; Anna Population (2010 Census): 11,937. Jean Rogucki, Glenville. DeKalb-Troy District: Wilda Porter Jones, Linn; Conner Ferguson, Glenville. COUNTY OFFICIALS Glenville District: Bob Radabaugh, Sand Fork; (Post office address Petersburg, Sandra A. Pettit, Sand Fork. unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (21st Judicial Circuit) Judges: Philip B. Jordan, Jr., (D), Keyser; Lynn REPUBLICAN COUNTY A. Nelson, (R), Keyser. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Officers March; second Tuesday in July; first Tuesday Chair: Willard Wright, Jr. in November. Vice Chair: Delbert Shackleford. Circuit Clerk: Nancy B. Dayton, (R). Secretary: Alecia Edwards. Court Reporters: Maria Clark; Mary Jane Treasurer: August Beyer. Smith. Members General Receiver: (Vacancy). Center District: (Vacancies). Probation Officers: Jerome V. DiBacco, Jr., City District: (Vacancies). Parsons; Thomas Felton, Parsons; Seth DeKalb-Troy District: (Vacancies). Haines, Keyser; Melissa Roderick, Keyser; Glenville District: Willard L. Wright, Jr. Ronald Sherman III, Petersburg. Magistrates: Willard L. Earle II, (R); Emory W. Feaster, Jr, (R). Family Court Judge: Amanda H. See, (D), Moorefield. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 891

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: GREENBRIER Ralph G. Layton, (R). Second largest county in West Virginia. Created Board of Education: Janie Berg; Jared Amtower; in 1778 from parts of Augusta and Botetourt Hugh Harris; Debora Hedrick; Scotty Miley. counties (Virginia) and named for the principal County Clerk: Harold G. Hiser, (R). river which drains the county. The first permanent County Commission: Douglas E. Swick, (R); settlement was established in 1769 at Frankford James C. Cole, (R); Jim Wilson, (R). (unincorporated). Terms of Court: Second and fourth Tuesday of each month. White Sulphur Springs has been a spa since 1778. Prosecuting Attorney: Jeffrey R. Roth, (R). Now the site of The Greenbrier hotel, it attracts Sheriff: George Douglas Fletcher, (R). guests from all over the world who come to enjoy Fiduciary Commissioners: James Paul Geary, The Greenbrier’s magnificent accommodations (R); John Ours, (R); Duke A. McDaniel, (D). and sports facilities. County Superintendent of Schools: Dr. DeEdra Bolton. Old Stone Church, built in 1796 at Lewisburg, Emergency Services Director: Peggy BoBo, Alt. still in use by the congregation, was the first County Extension Agent: Brad D. Smith; Presbyterian Church erected west of the Allegheny Kassidy Haslacker. Mountains. President, County Farm Bureau: Hollis C. Ours. Greenbrier State Forest and part of the Community Educational Outreach Service Monongahela National Forest are located in this President: Tomasenia Ours. county. Board of Health: Dr. John Glover, Chairman; Stephen Rexrode; Mike Hipp; Dave Amtower; Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Scott Gossard. coal, lumber, road materials, resort and convention Health Officer: John L. Hahn, M.D. center, medical school; livestock, hay and grain, Sanitarians: Cullen Sherman. poultry, fruit, dairying.

Greenbrier County Commission DEMOCRATIC COUNTY 200 North Court Street EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Lewisburg, WV 24901 Officers Phone: (304) 647-6689 Chair: Gary L. White, Milroy. Fax: (304) 647-6650 Secretary: Delores Alt Propst, Milroy. www.greenbriercounty.net Treasurer: Anne Kopple, Grant. Members Municipalities: *Alderson, Falling Spring Grant District: Hank Kopple. (Renick), Lewisburg, Quinwood, Rainelle, Milroy District: Daniel Alt; Pat Snell. Ronceverte, Rupert, White Sulphur Springs. Union District: (Vacancies). County Seat: Lewisburg. Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Eastern, Western. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Voting Precincts: 29. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Area: 1,022.80 square miles. Officers Population (2010 Census): 35,480. Chair: Barbara George Judy, Milroy. Secretary/Treasurer: Peggy Nelson, Union. *Also in Monroe County Members Grant District: Jane Kite Keeling; Mac Porter; Allan Kile. COUNTY OFFICIALS Milroy District: Allen Evans; Mary Hawk. (Post office address Lewisburg, Union District: Raymond W. Nelson; Marlene unless otherwise indicated) Nelson. Circuit Court (11th Judicial Circuit) Judges: James J. Rowe, (D), Chief judge; Robert E. Richard, (D). Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in February, June, and October. 892 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Circuit Clerk: Louvonne Arbuckle. Members Court Reporters: Jeanne Kellison; Judy V. Central District: Robin Rosenburg Spence; Nelson. Vicki Dove; Brad Tuckwiller; Paul Detch. Probation Officers: Tonya Hoover; Robert Eastern District: Karen Lobban; McKenzie Tooze. Moya; Paul Moya; Paul Jacoby. Juvenile Probation Officers: Karen B. Lemons; Western District: Kathy Martin; Jeffery Dustin Martin. McCraw; Steve Rutledge. Mental Hygiene Commissioner: Tom White. Magistrates: Brenda Campbell; Brenda Smith; Charles D. Beard. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Family Court Judge: David M. Sanders. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Chair: Susan T. Spicer. COUNTY OFFICERS Vice Chair: James “Jim” W. Childers, Sr. Assessor: Steven G. Keadle, (D). Secretary/Treasurer: Debbie McComb. Board of Education: Jeanie Wyatt; Hazel Reed; Members Kay Smith; Bob Toothman; Stephen Baldwin. Central District: Jim Childers; Heath Bennett; County Clerk: Robin Loudermilk, (D). Rose Dobbins; Jane Scott. County Commission: Lowell C. Rose, (D), Eastern District: Denny R. Canterbury; Ronceverte; Michael F. McClung, (R), F. Samuel Masters; Susan T. Spicer; Debbie Lewisburg; Woody Hanna, (D), Friars Hill. McComb. Terms of Court: Second Tuesday and fourth Western District: John Wyatt; Kevin Nutter; Tuesday each month. Carol McClung. Prosecuting Attorney: Patrick Via, (R). Sheriff:Jan Cahill, (D). Surveyor: Charles W. Smith. Fiduciary Supervisor: Joni Harrah. HAMPSHIRE Coroners: Frankie Jones; James Lewis; Josh Oldest county in West Virginia. Formed from Lewis. parts of Frederick and Augusta counties (Virginia), County Superintendent of Schools: Sally in 1754, and named for the English Shire of the Dalton. same name. Associate: Cathy Thompson. Assistant: Doug Clemons. Nathaniel Mountain Game Refuge (8,193.79 Emergency Services Director: Al Whitaker. acres) and part of the George Washington National County Extension Agent: John McCutcheon, Forest are located in this county. III. Extension Agent, Home Economics: Kay Davis. On , 16 miles north of Romney, ice is Extension Agent, 4-H: Robin Haynes. found along North River throughout the year, even President, Farm Bureau: Ben Tuckwiller. on the hottest summer days. Capon River and the Community Educational Outreach Service South Branch River provide fishing, canoeing and President: Novella Green. floating in tributaries of the Potomac River. Board of Health: Arnold Hasen; Patricia Lally; Vicki Gallaher; Lowell Rose; Monica Venable. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Physician Director: Zainab Shamma-Othman, logging and lumber, pulpwood, fruit, hay, cattle M.D. and poultry. Sanitarians: Amanda McMichael; William Knowlton; Stacy King. Hampshire County Commission Road Maintenance Superintendent: Jim Moore. 66 North High Street, PO Box 806 Romney, WV 26757 Phone: (304) 822-5112 DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Fax: (304) 822-4039 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE www.hampshirewv.com Officers Chair: Paul Moya. Municipalities: Capon Bridge, Romney. Vice Chair: Vicki Dove. County Seat: Romney. Secretary/Treasurer: Brad Tuckwiller. Magisterial Districts (8): A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 893

Voting Precincts: 24. Shoemaker. Area: 641.44 square miles. Environmental: Derrick Haggerty. Population (2010 Census): 23,964. Nursing: Tamitha Wilkins. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Chris Corbin. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Romney, unless otherwise indicated) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Circuit Court (22nd Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judges: Charles E. Parsons, Div. 2, Romney; H. Officers Charles Carl, III, Div. 1, Romney. Chair: Joe Pancione. Terms of Court: First Tuesday in January, May, Vice Chair: Michelle Kuykendall. and September. Secretary: Linda Smith. Circuit Clerk: Sonja K. Embrey, (R). Treasurer: Harry Spaid. Court Reporter: Susan Landes, Courtney Funk. Members Commissioner in Chancery: Loudoun L. District A: Walter Loeb, Paw Paw. Thompson, (D). District B: Robert H. Walker, Augusta. General Receiver: Garry Buckbee. District C: Richard Reece, Romney. Probation Officer: Laurie Hartman, Steve District D: Michael Smith, Linda Smith, Davis. Romney. Magistrates: Shirley Timbrook, Div. 1; Ronald District E: Garrett Kuykendall, Michelle Diciolla, Div. 2. Kuylendall, Romney. Family Court Judge: Glen R. Stotler, Div. 1. District F: Granis Lee, Augusta. District G: Joe Pancione, Augusta; Judith Ann Loy, Shanks. COUNTY OFFICERS District H: Harry Spaid, High View. Assessor: Norma Wagoner. At Large Member: Dorothy Kengla. Board of Education: Jean Shoemaker, president; Bernard Hott; Gerald Mathias; John Ward; Bonita Wilcox. REPUBLICAN COUNTY County Clerk: Eric W. Strite (R). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE County Commission: Steve Slonaker, (D); Officers David R. Parker, (R); Robert Q. Hott, (R). Chair: Robert Wolford, Points. Terms of Court: First Monday in April; fourth Vice Chair: Nathan Sions, Romney. Tuesday in July; fourth Tuesday in October; Treasurer: Edith Shankle, Bloomery. and third Tuesday in December. Secretary: Lisa Watson, Slanesville. Prosecuting Attorney: Daniel M. James, (R). Members Sheriff:John P. Alkire, (R). District A: Robert Egtvedt, Romney; Edith Surveyor: Richard Moreland. Shankle, Bloomery. Fiduciary Commissioners: Cathe Moreland, District B: Rob Wolford, Points; Patricia (D); Jonathan G. Grill, (D); William Judy, III, McKnew, Points. (R). District C: Charles Price; Patricia Price, Coroner: Penny Hartman, Jason Judy. Springfield. County Superintendent of Schools: Marianna District D: Eric Strite, Shanks. T. Leone. District E: Kelly Sions, Romney; Nathan Sions, Emergency Services Director: Brian Malcoln. Romney. WVU Extension Agents: Kelly Hicks; Stephen District F: David Parker, Romney; Lisa Watson, Starcher. Slanesville. President, Farm Bureau: Randall Omps. District G: Robert Q. Hott, Augusta. Community Educational Outreach Service District H: David Winkler, Katherine J. President: Carolyn Bowman. Winkler, Capon Springs. Board of Health: Tod Gross, chair; Steve Slonaker; Kelli Eglinger; Judith Hott; William Lipps. Health Officer: Thomas Daugherty, M.D. Health Department Administrator: Stephanie 894 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Magistrates: HANCOCK William S. Hicks; Michael Powell; Smallest county in the state. Created from Brooke Michael S. White. Family Court Judges: County in 1848 and named for John Hancock, Joyce Dumbaugh first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Chernenko, (D); William Sinclair, (D). Cannon balls manufactured at the iron foundry of Peter Tarr, on King’s Creek, were used by COUNTY OFFICERS Commodore Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie. Assessor: Tomlinson Run State Park is located in the Joseph Alongi, (D). Board of Education: county. Michelle Chappell, New Cumberland; Toni Hinerman, Weirton; Marie Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Brancazio, Weirton; John Manypenny; Jerry iron and steel, including tin plate, chrome plate, Durante, New Cumberland. County Clerk: hot and cold rolled, galvanized and structural George Foley (D). County Commission: shapes and piling, chinaware, pottery, brick and Jeff Davis, (D); Mike fire clay, sheet metal, tin products, racetrack, Swartzmiller, (D); Joe Barnabei, (D), Weirton. Terms of Court: gaming; apples, dairying, livestock. Every first and third Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Prosecuting Attorney: Old Tarr Furnace was the first blast furnace west James W. Davis, Jr., (D). of the Allegheny Mountains. About two miles Assistants: Jack Wood; Michael W. Lucas III; away, modern blast furnaces, located in Weirton, Allison Cowden; David F. Cross. Sheriff: are among the largest in the United States. Ralf Fletcher, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: Hancock County is the leading steel-producing Sara Hawthorne county in West Virginia and is the home of Bohn; April Manypenny Raines; Dean ArcelorMittal Steel Company. Makricostas. Investigators: Dezo Polgar. Hancock County Commission County Superintendent of Schools: Kathy 102 North Court Street, PO Box 485 Kidder-Wilkerson. Emergency Services Director: New Cumberland, WV 26047 John Paul Jones. Community Educational Outreach Service Phone: (304) 564-3311 President: Fax: (304) 564-4059 Sheila Ross. Board of Health: www.hancockcountywv.org Phil Rujak; James Pryor; Wilma J. Boring; Jill Orenzuk; Rick Smith. Health Officer: Municipalities: Chester, New Cumberland, Anna Suray, M.D. Sanitarians: *Weirton. Chelsea Morgan; Donna Gialluco; County Seat: New Cumberland. Carolyn Baker. Parks and Recreation Director: Magisterial Districts (3): Butler, Clay, Grant. James R. Akin: Voting Precincts: 25. David P. Willey. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Area: 88.55 square miles. Jim Population (2010 Census): 30,676. Witherow.

*Also in Brooke County. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COUNTY OFFICIALS Officers Chair: (Post office address New Cumberland, Steve Kourpas, Newell Vice Chair: unless otherwise indicated) Mary Lou Krzeczowski. Circuit Court (1st Judicial Circuit) Secretary: Judy Bartley. Treasurer: Judges: James P. Mazzone, (D), Wheeling; Judy Bartley. Members David J. Sims, (D), Wheeling; Ronald E. Butler District 1: Wilson, (D); Jason A. Cuomo, Wellsburg. Dino B. Ross; Lil Douglas. Butler District 2: Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in Kristin Bowman-Cross; January, April, and September. (Vacancy). Butler District 3: Circuit Clerk: Brenda Jackson, (D). (Vacancy). Grant District 1: Court Reporters: Julie Kreefer. Shelba Kirkbride; Mark General Receiver: Jane McGaughy. Cooper. Grant District 2: Probation Officers: Pamela Stumpf (adult); Mary Lou Kreczowski; Steve Nicole Serafine (juvenile). Kourpas. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 895

Grant District 3: (Vacancies). Magisterial Districts (5): Capon, Lost River, Clay District 1: Judith Bartley; John Jackson Moorefield, Old Fields, South Fork. Clay District 2: Donna Gialluco; (Vacancy). Voting Precincts: 14. Clay District 3: George E. Ash, Sr.; (Vacancy). Area: 575.52 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 14,025.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COUNTY OFFICIALS Officers (Post office address Moorefield, Chair: Pat McGeehan. unless otherwise indicated) Vice Chair: Lizabeth Gregg-Baldt. Circuit Court (22nd Judicial Circuit) Secretary: Susan Baldt. Judges: H. Charles Carl, III, (D); Charles E. Treasurer: Carl A. Frankovitch. Parsons (R). Parliamentarian: Linda Wickstrom. Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Members February, June, and October. Butler District 1: Maggie Sharrow; Bill Zoellers. Circuit Clerk: Kimberly Hartman, (D). Butler District 2: Susan Baldt; Rob Denham. Court Reporters: Susan Landes; Courtney Butler District 3: Judy Magnone; Bill Magnone. Funk. Grant District 1: Patrick McGeehan. Law Clerks: Jamie Ketterman; Jeffrey Grant District 2: Gail Wickstrom; Linda Weatherholt. Wickstrom. Secretaries: Diane Ruckman; Rebecca Connell. Grant District 3: Donna Zook. Probation Secretaries: Pam Fitzwater, (D); Clay District 1: Gregory Baldt; Lizabeth Gregg- Debra Poling, (D). Baldt. Commissioner in Chancery: Jack H. Walters, Clay District 2: Carl A. Frankovitch. (D). Clay District 3: Deb Robertson; Scott General Receiver: Karen L. Garrett, (D). Robertson. Probation Officers: John D. Rohrbaugh, (Adult) Chief; Manda Teter, (adult/juvenile). Magistrates: Shawna Crites, (D); Craig Hose, (R). Family Court Judge: Amanda H. See, (D). HARDY Case Coordinator: Sara C. Harper. Created from Hampshire County in 1786 and Secretary: Linda L. Ortiz. named for Samuel Hardy, a distinguished Virginian.

Lost River State Park and part of the George COUNTY OFFICERS Washington National Forest are located in this Assessor: Jim B. Wratchford, (D). county. Board of Education: Margaret Shiver; Loy Kesner; Nancy Hahn; Dixie Bean; Doug Near Wardensville, Lost River disappears under Hines. Sandy Ridge and reappears over four miles away as County Clerk: Gregory L. Ely, (D). the headwaters of the Cacapon River. County Commission: William E. Keplinger, Jr., (D); James Michael Teets, (R); Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Harold K. Michael, (D). lumber, cabinet manufacturing; hay and grain, County Commission Meeting: First Tuesday in livestock, dairying, poultry production and poultry each month. processing. County Coordinator: Rose D. Helmick. Prosecuting Attorney: Lucas See, (D). Hardy County Commission Sheriff:Bryan C. Ward, (D). 204 Washington Street Surveyor: David Jopling, (D). Moorefield, WV 26836 Fiduciary Commissioners: William H. Judy, III, Phone: (304) 530-0284 (R); Lary D. Garrett, (D); Joyce Stewart, (R). Fax: (304) 530-0283 Coroner: J. Thomas Fraley. www.hardycounty.com County Superintendent of Schools: Barbara Whitecotton. Municipalities: Moorefield, Wardensville. Mental Hygiene Commissioner: John County Seat: Moorefield. Treadway, (D). 896 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Emergency Services Director: Paul R. Lewis. County Agent: HARRISON David J. Workman. Created in 1784 from Monongalia County and 4-H Agent: Jane Jopling. named for Benjamin Harrison, distinguished Home Economist: (Vacancy). Virginian, who was the father of William Henry President, Farm Bureau: Ronnie Miller. Harrison, ninth president of the United States, President, Community Educational Outreach and the great grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, Service: Naomi Moyer, Mathias. 23rd president. Board of Health: Dixie Bean; Nicole Keller, (R); Gerald Hott, (D), Wardensville; Brenda The first Baptist church (Simpson Creek Baptist Peer, (R), Chair; Morris M. Homan, Jr., Church) west of the Allegheny Mountains in what (D), Old Fields. is now West Virginia was organized at Bridgeport Health Officer: Dewey F. Bensenhaver, about 1774. Petersburg. Health Administrator: William A. Ours. West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth is Community Health Nurses: Susan Moyers; located at Industrial (unincorporated). Shawna Long. Sanitarians: William A. Ours; Heidi Bosley. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Road Maintenance Superintendent: William B. glass and glassware, coal, chemicals, petroleum, Robinette. natural gas, lumber, chinaware, pottery; livestock, hay and grain, poultry, dairying.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Harrison County Commission EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 301 West Main Street Officers Clarksburg, WV 26301 Chair: (Vacancy). Phone: (304) 624-8500 Vice Chair: John Wilkins, Mathias. Fax: (304) 624-8673 Secretary: (Vacancy). www.harrisoncountywv.com Treasurer: Sherla H. Wilkins. Members Municipalities: Anmoore, Bridgeport, Capon District: (Vacancy). Clarksburg, Lost Creek, Lumberport, Nutter Fort, Lost River District: John Wilkins; Sherla H. Salem, Shinnston, Stonewood, West Milford. Wilkins. County Seat: Clarksburg. Moorefield District: (Vacancy). Magisterial Districts (6): North Urban, Eastern, South Fork District: (Vacancy). Northern, South Urban, Southern, Southwest. Old Fields District: (Vacancy). Voting Precincts: 75. Area: 417.85 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 69,099. REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers COUNTY OFFICIALS Chairperson: Roger L. Saville. (Post office address Clarksburg, Secretary: (Vacancy). unless otherwise indicated) Treasurer: (Vacancy). Circuit Court (15th Judicial Circuit) Members Judges: James A. Matish, (D); Thomas A. Capon District: (Vacancy). Bedell, (D); John Lewis Marks, Jr., (D). Lost River District: Annabelle Vance; Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in (Vacancy). January, May, and September. Moorefield District: Roger L. Saville; (Vacancy). Circuit Clerk: Donald L. Kopp, II, (D). South Fork District: (Vacancy). Court Reporters: Lillie Miller; Leslie Queen; E. Old Fields District: Stephen G Smith; Renee Eades. Elizabeth H Smith. Commissioners: Dean C. Ramsey; James A. Harris; John D. Martin, II. General Receiver: C. David McMunn. Chief Probation Officer: Charles Scott.

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Adult Probation Officers: Michael A. Fawcett; DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Virginia Baker; Michael Burnside; Janis EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Shaffer; Sherri Staten. Officers Juvenile Probation Officers: Beth Gain; Tracy Chair: Ron Fragale. Westerman. Vice Chair: Dot Mills. Magistrate Court Clerk: Wendy Davis. Secretary: Jane Merandi. Magistrates: Warren E. Davis, chief; Frank Treasurer: Adela M. Cortez. DeMarco; Keith Marple; Tammy Marple. Members Family Court Judges: Cornelia Reep; Lori B. North Urban District: Johnny Joe Madia; Jane Jackson. Merandi. Mental Hygiene Commissioners: James Cann; South Urban District: Martin Shaffer; Pamela Jonathan Fittro; D. Andrew McMunn. Hunt. Southern District: Jim Nutter, Stonewood; Dorothy Mills, Nutter Fort. COUNTY OFFICERS Eastern District: Stephen Santilli; Mary C. Assessor: Cheryl L. Romano, (D). Queen. Board of Education: Douglas Hogue, president; Northern District: W. Braden Noon; Adela M. Gary Hamrick; Mike Daugherty; Kristen Cortez. Messnger; Frank Dvono, Jr. SouthWest District: Timothy Fullerton, Salem; County Clerk: Susan Thomas, (D). Mary B. Stenger, West Milford. County Commission: Ronald R. Watson, (D); Bernie Fazzini, (D); Frank Angotti, (D). Terms of Court: First Monday in January, May, REPUBLICAN COUNTY and September. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Prosecuting Attorney: Rachel Romano, (D). Officers Assistants: Susan Morris, chief assistant; Chair: Jack Smith. Kurt Hall; Patricia Detorri; Laura Pickens; Vice Chair: Tommy Phillips. Jamie Armstrong; Andrea Roberts; Traci Secretary: Diana Bartley. Cook; Leeann Shuck; Shawn Adkins. Treasurer: Ina Grimes. Sheriff:Albert Marano, (D). Members Fiduciary Commissioners: Carmine J. Cann, North Urban District: Matt Fogg, Clarksburg; (D); James A. Varner, (R); Norman T. Farley, Ina Grimes, Clarksburg. (D); James C. Turner, (R). South Urban District: Curtis Edwards, Coroner: Steve McIntire. Clarksburg; Laura Kennedy, Clarksburg. County Superintendent of Schools: Dr. Mark Southern District: Jackson Smith, Lost Creek; Manchin. Jean Snyder, Lost Creek. Coordinator, Office of Emergency Services: Eastern District: Tommy Phillips, Bridgeport; Paul Bump. Terry Waxman, Bridgeport. County Extension Agents: Jason Burnside, 4-H; Northern District: Bradley Griffin, Shinston; Larry Campbell, Agriculture; Rebecca Diana Bartley, Lumberport. Mowbray Smith, Families and Health. SouthWest District: Jerry Todd, West Milford; President, Farm Bureau: William Coffindaffer. Melissa Todd, West Milford. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Connie Wolfinger. Board of Health: Dr. George Shehl, chair; Joyce Rabanal, R.N.; Martin Howe; James Scudere; Ron Watson; Mary Ann Iquinto. Health Officers: Nancy Joseph, M.D., physician/director; Chad Bundy, M.P.A., administrator. Sanitarians: William Nestor; Josh Snider; Steve Hinerman. Public Health Nurses: Margaret Howe, R.N., Nurse Director; Kavin Richardson, R.N.; Cindy Reep, R.N. Clerical: Jill Stalnaker; Sue Adkins; April Custer; Melissa Curtis. 898 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

County Commission: JACKSON Dick Waybright, (R), Formed in 1831 from parts of Kanawha, Wood Ravenswood; Mike Randolph, (R), Given; and Mason counties and named for Andrew Mitch Morrison, (R), Ravenswood. Terms of Court: Jackson, seventh President of the United States. Wednesdays at 9:30 AM. Prosecuting Attorney: Jesse Hughes, noted Indian fighter, is buried in Kenny Skeen, (R). Sheriff: this county. Tony Boggs, (D). Surveyor: (Vacancy). Fiduciary Supervisor: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Phyllis Howery. County Superintendent of Schools: pulpwood, oil and gas, Constellium Aluminum; Blaine poultry, livestock, hay and grain, tobacco. Hess. Emergency Services Director: Walt Smittle. Jackson County Commission Emergency Medical Services Director: Steve PO Box 800 McClure. Program Assistant: Ripley, WV 25271 Matt Taylor. Community Educational Outreach Service Phone: (304) 373-2220 President: Fax: (304) 373-0245 Cecil Eskins, Murraysville. Board of Health: www.jacksoncounty.wv.gov Dr. James T. Hughes, Board chair; Dr. James McCoy; Margret Ritchie; Municipalities: Ravenswood, Ripley. Joyce Robinson; Terri Ranson. Health Officer: County Seat: Ripley. Dr. I John Snyder, DO Director of Environmental Health: Magisterial Districts (3): Eastern, Northern, Jonathan Western. Graziani, RS Community Health Service: Tax Districts (7): Grant, Ravenswood, Union, Susan Hosaflook, Washington, Ripley, Ripley Town, Ravenswood R.N., administrator; Stephanie DeWees, RN, Town. BSN, director of clinical services; Jonathan Voting Precincts: 31. Graziani, director of environmental service; Area: 471.98 square miles. JoEllen Wilson, staff nurse, Amy Haskins, Population (2010 Census): 29,211. public health educator, director of Jackson County Anti-Drug Coalition; Wendy Crawford, coordinator of Threat Preparedness. COUNTY OFFICIALS County Highway Administrator: Lowell (Post office address Ripley, Pistelli. unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (5th Judicial Circuit) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judges: Thomas C. Evans III, (R); David W. Officers Nibert, (D), Point Pleasant. Chair: Terms of Court: Fourth Tuesday in February, David Mullins. First Vice Chair: June, and October. Karen Rhodes. Associate Chair: Circuit Clerk: Bruce DeWees, (R). Betty Totten. Secretary-Treasurer: General Receiver: Bruce DeWees. Judy Bunner. Parliamentarian: Victim Advocate: Megan Shockey. Jerry Payne. Assistant Secretary: Child Advocate Attorney: John Wilcox. Jean Abel. Members Magistrates: Jackie Casto, (D); William Thomas Northern District: (Tom) Reynolds, II, (R). Bob Blare, Ravenswood; Family Court Judges: Rebecca Cornett, (R), Larry Lacorte, Ravenswood; Jean Abel, Cottageville; Connie Fisher Thomas, (R), New Ravenswood; Donza F. Cooper, Ravenswood. Western District: Haven. Jerry Payne, Fairplain, Ripley; Mark Garrett, Ripley; Joyce Hunt Creel, Cottageville; Judy Bunner, Evans. COUNTY OFFICERS Eastern District: Janice Pitts, Ripley; Debbie Assessor: Brian Thomas, (D). Pitts, Ripley; Jim Picarella, Ripley; Keith Board of Education: Dr. Thomas Layne, Ripley; Brotherton, Leroy. Steve Wedge, Evans; Steve Chancey, Ripley; Carroll Staats, Ravenswood; Jack Wiseman, Ravenswood. County Clerk: Cheryl Bright, (R). SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 899

REPUBLICAN COUNTY Terms of Circuit Court: Third Tuesday in EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE January, April, and September. Officers Circuit Clerk: Laura Storm, (D). Chair: Linda Quillen. Court Reporters: Mary Kathleen Cook; Marcia Vice Chair: Jim Templin. Chandler; Tracey Rice; Claudette Turner; Secretary: Roberta Somerville. Kate Slayden. Treasurer: Doris Waybright. Commissioner in Chancery: Henry W. Members Morrow, Jr. Northern District: Mike Ihle, Ravenswood; Mental Hygiene Commissioners: Kirk Bottner; Loudonna Watkins, Ravenswood; Doris Nancy Dalby; David Skillman. Waybright, Sandyville. General Receiver: Bank of Charles Town. Eastern District: Carolyn Rader, Ripley; Juvenile Probation Officer: (Vacancy). Carolyn Waybright, Ripley: Bryan Thompson, Adult Probation Officers: Heather Sargent; Ripley. Patrick Dickman, Donald Jones, III. Western District: Linda Quillen, Evans; Magistrates: William Senseney; Mary Paul Roberta Somerville, Cottageville; John Rissler; Gail Boober. Hoffman, Ripley; Dick Waybright, Family Court Judges: David Greenberg; Sally Ravenswood. G. Jackson; David A. Camiletti.

COUNTY OFFICERS JEFFERSON Assessor: Angela L. Banks, (D). Formed from Berkeley County in 1801 and named Board of Education: Laurie Ogden; Kathryn for , author of the Declaration of Skinner; Scott Sudduth; Gary M. Kable; Mark Independence and third president of the United Osbourn. States. County Clerk: Jennifer S. Maghan, (R). County Commission: Dale Manuel, (D); Patsy Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Noland, (D); Walt Pellish, (R); Eric Bell, (R); cement and road material, clothing, paper, Jane Tabb, (R). boxboard, lumber, dolomite, fertilizer; fruit, Terms of Court: First Thursday in January, livestock, hay and grain, dairying. April, July and October. Prosecuting Attorney: Ralph Lorenzetti, (D). Jefferson County Commission Assistants: Charles B. Howard; Stephen 124 East Washington Street, PO Box 250 Groh; Brandon Sims; Hassan Rasheed; Charles Town, WV 25414 Lyndsey Matschat; Lydia Lehman, Neil Phone: (304) 728-3284 Zahradnik, Nathan Cochran. Fax: (304) 725-7916 Sheriff:Peter H. Dougherty, (D). www.jeffersoncountywv.org Surveyor: (Vacancy). Acting County Administrator: Stephanie Municipalities: Bolivar, Charles Town, Harpers Grove. Ferry, Ranson, Shepherdstown. Fiduciary Commissioners: June Jovanelly; County Seat: Charles Town. David A. DeJarnett; Andrew Arnold; D. Frank Magisterial Districts (5): Charles Town, Harpers Hill III. Ferry, Kabletown, Middleway, Shepherdstown. Coroners: Donald Shirley; Candy Shirley; Justin Voting Precincts: 32. Caldwell. Area: 212.41 square miles. County Superintendent of Schools: Bondy Shay Population (2010 Census): 53,498. Gibson. Emergency Services Director: Barbara Miller. County Extension Agent: Judy Matlick; Shay COUNTY OFFICIALS McNeil; Michael Harmon. (Post office address Charles Town, President, 4-H Leaders Association: Emily unless otherwise indicated) Nibert. Circuit Court (23rd Judicial Circuit) Community Educational Outreach Service Judges: David H. Sanders, (D), Chief judge, President: Wallis Anne Magaha. Jefferson; Gray Silver, III, (D), Martinsburg; Board of Health: Robert Shefner; Lorena Christopher C. Wilkes, (R), Martinsburg; Nathan; Willis Nowell; Mark Shields; Tom John Yoder, (R), Michael Lorensen. Trumble. 900 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Health Officer: David Didden. Local Health Administrator: KANAWHA Christina Jackson. Formed from parts of Greenbrier and Sanitarians: William Zaleski; Katherine Roy, Montgomery counties (Virginia) in 1788. Named Nicole Love. for the Great Kanawha River, which received its Public Health Nurses: Julie Gray, Spring name from the Indian tribe which once dwelt in Stillions, Emily Sensel. the territory now embraced within the county. Threat Preparedness Coordinator: Sandy Hite. County Maintenance Supervisor: William Kanawha State Forest is located in this county. Polk. West Virginia State University (formerly West Virginia State College) is located at Institute (unincorporated). Home of the University of DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Charleston (formerly Morris Harvey College). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Officers Chemicals and brines, coal, petroleum, natural Chairwoman : John Maxey. gas, electric power, lumber, mine machinery Vice Chairwoman: Cheryl Lawrence. and equipment; dairying, hay and grain, fruit, Secretary: Lyn Widmyer. vegetables, livestock. Treasurer: Ann Paonessa. Members Public recreation areas: Meadowood Park, Charles Town District: Rod Snyder; Ann Tornado; Coonskin Park, Charleston; Shawnee Paonessa. Park, Dunbar; Pioneer Park, East Bank. Harpers Ferry District: John Maxey; Lyn Widmyer. Kanawha County Commission Middleway District: H. S. Leigh Koonce, 407 Virginia Street Nancy Lutz. Charleston, WV 25301 Shepherdstown District: Cheryl Lawrence; Phone: (304) 357-0101 Stephen Skinner. Fax: (304) 357-0788 Kabletown District: Nance Briscoe, Doug www.kanawha.us Stolipher. Municipalities: Belle, Cedar Grove, Charleston, Chesapeake, Clendenin, Dunbar, East Bank, REPUBLICAN COUNTY Glasgow, Handley, Marmet, *Montgomery, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE +Nitro, Pratt, Saint Albans, South Charleston. Officers County Seat: Charleston. Chair: Mike Ashley. Magisterial Districts (4): I, II, III, IV. Vice Chair: Jean Jacobs. Voting Precincts: 163. Treasurer: Teresa Pangle. Area: 913.38 square miles. Secretary: Dina Daley. Population (2010 Census): 193,063. Members Charles Town District: Mike Ashley; (Vacancy). *Principal part of Montgomery in Fayette County. Harpers Ferry District: Brett Stone; Anne +Also in Putnam County. Dungan. Kabletown District: Peter Stevens; Jill Upson. Middleway District: Jack Hafestay; Regina COUNTY OFFICIALS Smith. (Post office address Charleston, Shepherdstown District: Jean K. Jacobs; unless otherwise indicated) (Vacancy). Circuit Court (13th Judicial Circuit) Judges: Charles E. King, Jr.; Louis H. Bloom; Tod J. Kaufman; James C. Stucky; Jennifer Bailey; Carrie L. Webster; Joanna Tabit. Secretaries: Kim Gregory; Celeste Deitzler; Susan Pritt; Sherry Cooke; Stephanie Rutherford; Guyla Black; Melody Shannon. Terms of Court: Second Monday in January, SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 901

May, and September. Purchasing Director: Jerie Whitehead. Court Administrator: Steve Hanley. Fiduciary Supervisor: Andrew Gunnoe. Circuit Clerk: Cathy S. Gatson, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: Troy Giatras; Law Clerks: Lynne Coppala; Christine Fox; Jennifer Victor; Woody Hill; Jason Lord. Evan Olds; Amanda Hutchinson; Ashley County Attorney: Marc Slotnick. Lynch; Ashlee Lambert; Leah Macia. Superintendent of Schools: Ron E. Duerring, Court Reporters: Dwayne Price; Natalie Boggs; Ed.D. Twyla Donathan; Karen King; Mary Gagnon; Kanawha County Emergency Services Agency: Christy Bellville; Becky Baxter-Calvert. Dale Petry, Director. Probation Officers (Adult): Judy A. Jones, Chief Home Economist: Kerri Wade, WVU probation officer; James F. Dunlap, deputy Extension Office. PO; Angela Bartle, drug court coordinator/ Board of Health: Brenda Isaac, president; PO; Mary Ann Williams, PO; Rebecca Arthur B. Rubin, D.O.; Stephen A. Weber; Bostic, PO; Nona Black, PO; Kelley Estep, Robert Reishman; James Strawn; Shannon PO; Ruell C. Tolliver, PO; Michael Lazo, PO; Snodgrass; director of administrative Dustin Mullins, PO; Tamra Hyre Craig, PO; services, Lolita Kirk. M. Dylan Shaffer, PO; Justin Farris, PO; Medical Director: Michael R. Brumage, MC, Krystal Tolliver, PO. MPH, FACP. Secretaries: Bobbi Sowards; Elizabeth Parsons; Kanawha County Planning Commission: Pam Lydia Megan McNeely; Elizabeth Tornes. Hylbert-Eder, J.D. Stricklen, David Fletcher, Probation Officers (Juvenile): Keith Stewart, Martin Castleberry, Mark C. Shamblin, S.K. chief probation officer; Angela Visconti, Miller, Bobbie Howard, Jerry Childers, W. deputy chief PO; Tera Adkins, Drug Court/ Kent Carper, Barry Kemerer, Jack Lavender, PO; Ricky Smoot, PO; Deborah Fields, PO; Robert W. Ritenour, Kenneth Miller, Steve Paula Bland, PO; Erika M. Elswick, PO; Reynolds, Jean Gibson. Mona Dues, PO; Lon Kelly, PO; Nikki Planning Commission Director: Steve Neddo. Rollins, PO; Parnell Legros, PO. Ambulance Authority Director: Joe Lynch. Mental Hygiene Commissioners: Brady Kanawha County Parks and Recreation Campbell; Barbara Utt; Robin Louderback; Commission: Allen Tackett, President; John Ray Keener; Jesse Forbes; Jason Lord. Huddleston; David Pope; Stuart Smith; Pat Magistrates: Joe Shelton; Ward Harshbarger, Donahoe; Andrew Jordan; Glen Chestnut; III; Tim Halloran; Pete Lopez; Kim Aaron; Doug Tench; Janet Drumheller; Anna Dailey; Julie M. Yeager; Tracie Carper-Strickland; Chris Hamilton. Mike Sisson; Jack Pauley; Brent Hall. Animal Shelter Director: Chelsey Staley. Magistrate Clerk: Angela Cincinnati Camp Virgil Tate Director: Kim Lupardas. Family Court Judges: R. Joseph Zak; Robert Regional Intergovernmental Council Director: Montgomery; D. Mark Snyder; Sharon Mark Felton. Mullens; Kenneth Ballard. Kanawha County Library Director: Allen Englebert. COUNTY OFFICERS Region III Workforce Investment Board: S.K. Assessor: Sallie Robinson, (D). Miller. Board of Education: James Crawford; Pete Housing Authority Director: Mark Taylor. Thaw; Becky Jordon; Ric Cavender; Ryan Regional Transit Authority: director of White. operations, Mic Peaytt; general manager, County Clerk: Vera J. McCormick, (R). Dennis Dawson. County Commission: Henry C. Shores, (R); W. Kent Carper, (D); David Hardy, (D). Terms of Court: Thursday. Prosecuting Attorney: Charles Miller (R). Sheriff:John Rutherford, (D). Surveyor: Bob Gunnoe. County Manager: Jennifer Sayre 902 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Officers Officers Chair: Elaine Harris, St. Albans. Chair: Carolyn Stricklen, Dunbar. Vice Chair: Derek Walker, Charleston. Vice Chair: Lance Wheeler, St. Albans. Secretary: Michelle Peters, Charleston. Treasurer: Danny Blair, St. Albans. Parliamentarian: Kevin Baker. Secretary: Stephanie Abramowitz, Charleston. Treasurer: Sheila Melton, Elkview. Members Members District I: District I: 1-A: (Vacancy); Donna Caruthers. 1-A: Jack Lavendar; Mildred L. Grooms. 1-B: (Vacancy); Tressie Profitt Cabell. 1-B: Don Springer; Tressia Proffitt. 1-C: (Vacancy); Jennifer Jo Strickland. 1-C: Larry Davenport; Jennifer Davenport. 1-D: John Holmes; Debbie Holmes. 1-D: Paul Burke; Janet Burke. 1-E: Frank Larese; (Vacancy). 1-E: Glen Chestnut; Kathy Yates. 1-F: (Vacancy); Donna Holstein. 1-F: Barbara Legg; Terry Halstead. 1-G: John Miller; Kathleen Gatskie. 1-G: Loren Snodgrass; Nola Snodgrass. 1-H: Thorney Lieberman; Karla Boyd. 1-H: Kevin Baker; Hattie Johnson. 1-I: Matt Dailer; (Vacancy). 1-I: Janet “JT” Thompson; Robert Sheets. District II: District II: 2-A: (Vacancy); Connie Robertson. 2-A: Ty Robb; Tiffany Anderson. 2-B: Rob Potter; Cheryl Wyatt. 2-B: Thornton Cooper; Meg Britt. 2-C: Fred Joseph; (Vacancy). 2-C: Gary Spencer; Michelle Peters. 2-D: John Kogoy; Nancy Kogoy. 2-D: Elena Bailey; Edward Weis. 2-E: John Hoover; Stephanie Ambromowitz. 2-E: Ben Salango; Jill Miles. 2-F: Nathan Lyle, (Vacancy). 2-F: Eloise Jack; Sam Wood. 2-G: (Vacancies). 2-G: (Vacancy); Sharon Carpenter. 2-H: Danny Stricklen; Carolyn Painter Stricklen. 2-H: Timothy Taylor, Sr.; Valerie Taylor. 2-I: John Wilshere; Michelle Wilshere. 2-I: Denise Tucker, David Tucker. District III: District III: 3-A: (Vacancies). 3-A: Sue Bayliss; Charles Mooney. 3-B: Daniel Barnett, (Vacancy). 3-B: Gary Winter; Norma Winter. 3-C: Lance Wheeler, (Vacancy). 3-C: Jean Gibson; (Vacancy). 3-D: Sigrid Riley, (Vacancy). 3-D: Elaine Harris; Donald Burford. 3-E: Adrian McGinnis, (Vacancy). 3-E: Hetti Terry; Ernest Terry. 3-F: (Vacancies). 3-F: Sherri Breeden, Bill Breeden. 3-G: (Vacancies). 3-G: Virginia Moles; Russ Rollyson. 3-H: (Vacancy); Nancy McClanahan. 3-H: Kay Moffatt; (Vacancy). 3-I: Thomas Collins; Dianna Graves. 3-I: (Vacancy); Calvin Greenhowe. District IV: District IV: 4-A: George Metz, (Vacancy). 4-A: (Vacant) Harold Sweeney. 4-B: Rick Greathouse, (Vacancy). 4-B: Lue Chandler; Ralph Pence. 4-C: (Vacancy); Anna Armstead. 4-C: Sheila Melton; David Ross. 4-D: Larry Medley; Suzie Azvedo. 4-D: Rose Ann Copen; Justin Southern. 4-E: (Vacancies). 4-E: Shonette Loftis; Rodney Loftis. 4-F: Brian Casto, (Vacancy). 4-F: Ronnie Walls, Sr.; Sally Shepherd. 4-G: Adam Knauff; Bronson Shores. 4-G: Jenna Lee McClaskie; Scott King. 4-H: Charles Minamah, (Vacancy). 4-H: Mark Hunt, Tracy Hunt. 4-I: (Vacancies). 4-I: R. Derek Walker; Denise Walker. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 903

General Receiver: W.T. Weber, III. LEWIS Magistrates: Created in 1816 from Harrison County and Roger D. Clem, Jr.; Michael R. named for Colonel Charles Lewis, famous soldier Gissy. Family Court Judge: and leader among the Virginia Pioneers who was Robert Reed Sowa. killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. COUNTY OFFICERS Jackson’s Mill, five miles north of Weston, the Assessor: boyhood home of the famous Confederate T. Chad Kelley, Jane Lew, (D). Board of Education: General, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, is the Sylvia McNeish; Beth A. location of the state-owned 4-H camp for boys Cayton; Paul Derico; Russell M. Probst; and girls. The mill is open as a museum during Debbie Clem. County Clerk: June, July, and August each year. Cynthia S. Rowan, (R). County Commission: Agnes G. Queen, (D), The first Methodist Protestant church in the president; Patrick D. Boyle, (D); Thomas V. United States was organized by John Mitchell and Fealy, (D); Anges G. Queen, (D). County Coordinators: David Smith at Old Harmony Church, near Jane Phyllis Corathers; Lew, in 1829. Lucinda Whetsell. Economic Development Coordinator: Michael Stonewall Jackson Lake, 3,470 acres, is a main D. Herron. Terms of Court: recreation and tourism attraction within the Monday of each week. Prosecuting Attorney: county. Christina C. Flanigan, (R). Sheriff: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Adam M. Gissy, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: glass and glassware, petroleum, natural gas, Joseph W. Wagoner, lumber; livestock, dairying, hay, grain, poultry, (R); W. T. Weber, Jr., (D); Charles C. winery. Hathaway, (R). County Superintendent of Schools: Joseph L. Lewis County Commission Mace. Extension Agents: 110 Center Avenue Bruce M. Loyd; Elizabeth A. Weston, WV 26452 Post. President, Farm Bureau: Phone: (304) 269-8200 Denver Turner, Fax: (304) 269-2416 Weston. Community Educational Outreach Service www.lewiscountywv.org President: Judy Smith, Buckhannon. Board of Health: Municipalities: Jane Lew; Weston. Melinda Law; Danny Mick; County Seat: Weston. Sherry Jackson; Steve Casto; Kathy Stove; Magisterial Districts (3): Courthouse-Collins Linda Fox; Alicia Flesher; Patricia Vankirk. Health Officer: Settlement, Hacker’s Creek-Skin Creek, Freeman’s Bennett Orvik, M.D. Parks and Recreation Commission: Creek. Lee Walker, Voting Precincts: 24. chair; W. T. Weber, III, legal adviser; Area: 391.35 square miles. Gene Edwards; Josie Britton; Glenn Brown, Population (2010 Census): 16,372. Jr.; Betty Hill; Connie Chapman; Shirley Taylor; Cindi Shaver; Richard Messenger; Alyce Henry; T. Chad Kelley; Barbara Paugh. COUNTY OFFICIALS Commission Representative: Agnes Queen. (Post office address Weston, unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (26th Judicial Circuit) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judge: Jacob E. Reger, (R), Buckhannon. Officers Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in March, Chair: second Monday in July, and first Monday in Bob Stultz. Vice Chair: November. Karl Staubly. Vice Chair: Circuit Clerk: John B. Hinzman, (R). Robin L. Stultz. Secretary: Court Reporter: Tiffanie Tate, Buckhannon. Francine Snyder. Treasurer: Commissioners: W. T. Weber, Jr.; R. Russell Judy Staubly. Parliamentarian: Stobbs. Garry Lynne Shearer. 904 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Members COUNTY OFFICIALS Courthouse-Collins Settlement District: (Post office address Hamlin, Lucinda Arnold Whetsell Francine Snyder; Jill unless otherwise indicated) N. Balser; Michael R. Gissy Garold W. Morris Circuit Court (25th Judicial Circuit) II; Robert J. Piercy Judges: Jay M. Hoke, (D), Chief judge; William Hackers Creek-Skin Creek District: Kurt Hall; S. Thompson, (D). Robert L. Stultz; Judy Staubly; Sandra Terms of Circuit Court: Third Monday in Johnston Patricia A. Smith. January, April and September. Freemans Creek District: John Carroll; Circuit Clerk: Charles W. Brumfield, (D), Michael Jenkins; Chanda Kelley; Charles D. Harts. Rittenhouse; Brianna M. McClain; Shannon Court Reporter: Jennifer Meadows. Keely Cunningham. Adult Probation Officer: Jerry L. Swanson, II. Juvenile Probation Officer: Tom Scarpellini. Magistrates: Sophia Tully, (D), West Hamlin; REPUBLICAN COUNTY Mona Dell Snodgrass, (D), Hamlin. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Family Court Judges: Scott Elswick, (D), Alum Officers Creek; Cynthia J. Jarrell. (D), Danville. Chair: Glenn Brown, Jr. Vice Chair: Vicki Kerrigan. Treasurer: Frank Angotti. COUNTY OFFICERS Secretary: Louella Clem. Assessor: Joshua Brumfield, (D), Yawkey. Members Board of Education: Carol Smith, Branchland; Courthouse-Collins Settlement District: Fred Curry, Hamlin; Steve Priestley, Hamlin; Glenn Brown, Jr.; Vickie Kerrigan; Eric Larry Wilkerson, Griffithsville. Sherrard; (Vacancies). County Clerk: Direl G. Baker (D) Ranger. Hackers Creek-Skin Creek District: Maxine County Commission: Dr. Charles Vance (D) Olson; Cinda Jamison; James Atchison R. Ranger; KK Matthews, president, (D), Gerald Wood; Robert R. Taylor; (Vacancies). Sumerco; Phoebe Hareless, (D), Griffithsville. Freemans Creek District: Louella Clem; Terms of Court: First Thursday, 6 p.m., and Connie S. Riffle; Frank J. Angotti; Ernest Third Thursday, 6 p.m. Bennett; Dean Bennett. Prosecuting Attorney: James Gabehart, (D), Hamlin. Sheriff:Ken Farley, (D), Yawkey. Surveyor: (Vacancy). LINCOLN Fiduciary Commissioners: Ron Salmons; C. Formed in 1867 from parts of Cabell, Putnam, Joseph Stevens. Kanawha and Boone counties and named in honor County Superintendent of Schools: Patricia of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the Lucas. United States. Emergency Services Director: Allen Holder. Community Educational Outreach Service: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Alma Cummings, president; Margaret Smith, petroleum, natural gas, lumber; tobacco, corn, vice president; Kim Satterfield, secretary; potatoes. Betty Bias, treasuer; David Roberts, WVU Extension agent advisor. Lincoln County Commission Home Demonstration Agent: (Vacancy). PO Box 497 Board of Health: Sharon White; Joann Elkins; Hamlin, WV 25523 Rosa Wiley, chair; Jerry Linville; Kristy Phone: (304) 824-7990 Scraggs. Fax: (304) 824-2444 Health Officer: J. Loren Smith, Alum Creek. www.lincolncountywv.org Administrator: Sam Suiter. Threat Preparedness Coordinator: (Vacancy). Municipalities: Hamlin, West Hamlin. Nurses: Summer Beck. County Seat: Hamlin. Health Clerks: Renee Riggs. Magisterial Districts (3): 1, 2, 3. Sanitarians: Joelle Mckinny. Voting Precincts: 16. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Neil Area: 437 square miles. Morrison. Population (2010 Census): 21,720. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 905

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Logan, Officers unless otherwise indicated) Chair: Barry Hareless. Circuit Court (7th Judicial Circuit) First Vice Chair: David Webb. Judges: Eric H. O’Briant, (D), Chief judge; Secretary: Donna Martin. William Douglas Witten, (D). Treasurer: Josh Stowers. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Members January, May and September. District 1: Janet Cyrus; Amy Stowers; Rick Circuit Clerk: Vickie Vance Kolota, (D). Ryan; Ronald Pauley. Court Reporters: Larry Coffindaffer; Karen District 2: Lova Farley; Sheila Frazier; Howard Medley. Farley; Edward Baker. Juvenile and Adult Probation Officers: Kevin District 3: Donna Martin; Marsha Weaver; Runyon; Kim Tipton; Angie Aquirre; Rebekah Daniel Clayton; Myrl Gue. Kolota Bias; Morgan Wolfe; Tiffany Robinson; Ashley Collier. State Parole Officer: Becky Harrison. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Magistrates: Leonard Codispoti; Jeff Lane; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dwight Williamson. Officers Family Court Judges: Kelly Gilmore Codispoti; Chair: Lisa Ramey. Susan Perry. First Vice Chair: Greg Mullins. Secretary: Gary Johngrass. Treasurer: Phillis Ashworth. COUNTY OFFICERS Members Assessor: Robert David Trent, (D). District 1: Larry Pauley; (three Vacancies). Board of Education: Jim Frye, President; Phyllis District 2: Lisa Ramey; Gloria Lovejoy; Greg Adkins; Debbie Mendez; Pat Joe White; Mark Mullins; Gene Lovejoy. McGrew. District 3: JoAnn Turley Barrett; George Anna County Clerk: John A. Turner, (D). Browning; Sherrill Porter; Roger McComas. Probate Clerk: A. Denise Farmer. County Commission: Danny Godby, president, (D); Willie D. Akers, Jr., (D); Danny L. Ellis, (D). LOGAN County Administrator: Roscoe Adkins. Formed in 1824 from parts of Giles, Tazewell, Terms of Court: First and third Monday of each Cabell and Kanawha counties (Virginia) and month. named for Logan, famous Indian chief of the Prosecuting Attorney: John W. Bennett, (D). Mingo tribe. Assistants: R. Todd Goudy; Jerry White; J. Christopher White; David Wandling; Donald Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Wandling. coal, lumber, electric power; livestock, dairying, Sheriff:Sonya M. Dingess-Porter (D). corn, potatoes. Surveyor: Jamie Evans. Fiduciary Commissioners: Mark Hobbs; Harold Logan County Commission Madison; John Hussell. 300 Stratton Street Coroners: John Meade. Logan, WV 25601 Voter Registration and Vital Statistics: Debra Phone: (304) 792-8626 Bragg; Sharon Robinette; Kaylee Spurlock. Fax: (304) 792-8511 County Superintendent of Schools: Phyllis Doty. www.logancounty.wv.gov Assistant: Mary L. MacCorkle. Emergency Services Director: Roger Bryant. Municipalities: Chapmanville, Logan, Man, County 4-H Agent: Dana Wright (acting). Mitchell Heights, West Logan. Board of Health: Eugene Adkins, chair; County Seat: Logan. Janice Clark; John Workman; Stephen Justice; Magisterial Districts (3): East, Central, West. Darrell Tomblin Voting Precincts: 35. Health Officer: Livia Cabauatan, M.D., Area: 455.82 square miles. physician director. Population (2010 Census): 36,743. Nurses: Sandra Davis, R.N.; Bobbie Jo Adkins, R.N.; Moreen Rockel, R.N. 906 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Sanitarians: Peter Spurlock, III; Steve MARION Browning. Created in 1842 from parts of Monongalia and Road Maintenance Superintendent: Mike Harrison counties and named in honor of General Gillum (D). Francis Marion of Revolutionary War fame, known in history as “The Swamp Fox”. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Fairmont was the home of Francis Harrison EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government Officers of Virginia. His outstanding contribution to Chair: Vickie Kolota, Verdunville. the formation of West Virginia as the 35th state Vice Chair: Robbie Queen, Stollings. in 1863 earned him the title of “Father of West Secretary: Claudia Ellis, Logan. Virginia.” Treasurer: Claudia Ellis, Logan. Parliamentarian: Brian Abraham. Prickett’s Fort State Park, located off W.Va. Route Members 73, is a tourist attraction in Marion County. District 1: Marie Belcher, Chapmanville; Keith Fairmont State University, located in Fairmont, Adams, Mount Gay. was founded in 1865 as a private school and District 2: Becky Nagy, Holden; Phillip Vance, became a state institution in 1867. Whitman. District 3: Claudia Ellis, Logan; Robbie Queen, Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Logan. coal, aluminum sheets, aluminum ventilation District 4: Sarriema Hendricks, Stollings; John louvers and vents, electric power, hydraulic pump (Moe) Pennington, Stollings. and motor parts, computer software application District 5: Jerri Lynn Freeman, Big Creek; and design, computer hardware manufacturing Chadd Martin, Chapmanville. and other high technology industries, natural gas, District 6: Sherry Duncan, Accoville; Eddie telemarketing services; livestock, hay and grain, Adkins, Amherstdale. dairying, poultry.

Marion County Commission REPUBLICAN COUNTY 200 Jackson Street EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Fairmont, WV 26554 Officers Phone: (304) 367-5400 Chair: Dianne M. Dewey White. Fax: (304) 367-5431 co-chair: Roger Porter, Pecks Mill; Judy www.marioncountywv.com Barker. Minority Co-Chair: Andrea Santos, Omar. Municipalities: Barrackville, Fairmont, Fairview, Secretary: Deborah Porter. Farmington, Grant Town, Mannington, Treasurer: Janice Stone, Omar. Monongah, Pleasant Valley, Rivesville, White Members Hall, Worthington. District 1: Shirley Baisden, Verdunville; Michael County Seat: Fairmont. Vaughn Bledsoe, Chapmanville. Magisterial Districts (3): Middletown, Palatine, District 2: Janice Stone, Sarah Ann; Aaron West Augusta. Stone, Sarah Ann. Voting Precincts: 76. District 3: Anita Lanthorne, Logan; Gary Lee Area: 313.55 square miles. Corns, Logan. Population (2010 Census): 56,418. District 4: Teresa Townsend, Ethel; Darrell Townsend, Ethel. District 5: Christy Spry, Chapmanville; Naaman Spry, Jr., Chapmanville. District 6: Whitney Harvey, Davin; Chad Story, Man. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 907

COUNTY OFFICIALS 4-H & Youth Development Agent: Tina Cowger. (Post office address Fairmont, President, Farm Bureau: Ben Smith, Sr. unless otherwise indicated) Agricultural/Natural Resources Extension Circuit Court (16th Judicial Circuit) Agent: John Murray. Judges: David R. Janes, (D), chief judge; Community Educational Outreach Service: Michael J. Aloi, (D). Barbara Metcalfe, president. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in Marion County Master Gardners: Susan Hale, February, June, and October. president. Circuit Clerk: Rhonda Starn, (D). USDA-Farm Loan Manager: Karen McBee. Court Reporters: Terri Cheslock; Carol USDA Farm Service Agency: Mary Jouver, Ashburn. county director. Commissioners in Chancery: Anthony J. Julian; USDA District Director: Service Center at Kenneth R. Miller; Elisabeth H. Rose; Frances White Hall: (304-363-8861). C. Whiteman; Charles Anderson. Board of Health: Leonard Stafford, president; General Receiver: Connie Haun. Randy Elliott; Bradley Newbraugh; Gary Mental Hygiene Commissioners: Scott Santy; Shannon Beafore. Shough, commissioner; Gary Martino, Administrator: Lloyd R. White. alternate commissioner. Health Officer: Govind Patel, M.D. Adult Probation Officers: Thomas Carpenter; Sanitarians: Lloyd White, chief; Charles Heather Campbell; Dorothy Lambert; Marcus Pethtel; Jamie Moore. Weese. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Jeff Pethtel. Juvenile Probation Officers: Brent King; Jennifer Freeman; Kaitlyn Antolock. Magistrate Court Clerk: Cathy Gower. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Magistrates: Melissa Linger, (D), chief EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE magistrate; Hank Middlemas, (D); Mark Officers Hayes, (D), Dana Shay, (D). Chair: Belinda Biafore. Family Court Judge: Amy Swisher, (D). First Vice Chair: Vern Swisher. Second Vice Chair: (Vacancy). Secretary: Barbara Core. COUNTY OFFICIALS Treasurer: Ron Pearse. Assessor: James P. Priester, (D). Parliamentarian: Jim Sago. Board of Education: Richard Pelligrin, Members president; Dr. Babette J. Simms; Janet East Paw Paw District: Rose Angelina; Sidney Crescenzi; Thomas Dragich; Mary Jo Thomas. Michael Webb. County Clerk: Janice Cosco, (D). Fairmont District I: Patty Feltz; Rick Garcia. County Commission: Randy Elliott, (D), Fairmont District II: Carol Oliver; Jack Oliver. president; Ernest VanGilder, (R); Richard Fairmont District III: Kathryn Shields; Garcia, (D). (Vacancy). County Administrator: Kristopher Cinalli, (D). Fairmont District IV: (Vacancy); S. Scott Sears. Terms of Court: Weekly meetings, 10 a.m., Grant District I: Janice Cosco; Jesse Corley. Wednesday, the last Wednesday of the first Grant District II: Doris Urich; Christopher B. three quarters of the year and the first Wolfe. Wednesday in December at 7 p.m. Grant District III: (Vacancy); Joe Kovach. Prosecuting Attorney: Patrick Wilson, (D). Mannington City District: Julie Kincaid; Sheriff:Joseph Carpenter, (D). Randy Elliott. Surveyor: Christopher Wolfe, (D). Mannington District: (Vacancy); Mark Rankin. Fiduciary Supervisor: David A. Glance, (D). North Lincoln District: Donna J. Costello; Fiduciary Commissioners: Jarrod DeVault. Mike Angelucci. Coroners: Lloyd White, chief medical South Lincoln District: Doris J. Basnett; examiner; Joe Masturzo, coroner; Krystal Donald Leonard. Biro, medical examiner. Union District I: Karen Gribben; Robert County Superintendent of Schools: Gary L. Gribben. Price. Union District II: Meg Cianfrocca; (Vacancy). Emergency Services Director: Chris McIntire. Union District III: (Vacancies). Families & Health Agent: Lauren Prinzo. Winfield District: (Vacancies). 908 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MARSHALL Formed from Ohio County in 1835 and named Officers for John Marshall, who served as chief justice of Chair: Andrew Sabak. the United States Supreme Court for 34 years. Vice Chair: Chuck Mullett. Elizabethtown, named as the county seat in Secretary: Kandice Nuzum. the act creating the county, was combined with Treasurer: Phil Reed. Moundsville in 1866. Parliamentarian: Chuck Reed. Members Leading industries and chief agricultural products: East Paw Paw District: (Vacancies). iron and steel, glass and glassware, chemicals, coal, Fairmont District I: Nadine Williams Ezelle; clothing, natural gas; hay and grain, dairying, Barry Bledsoe. fruit, vegetables, sheep. Fairmont District II: (Vacancies). Fairmont District III: Ron Southern; Cindy Marshall County Commission Fink. 600 Seventh Street Fairmont District IV: Kimberly Moats Moundsville, WV 26041 Hawkinberry; Andrew Sabak. Phone: (304) 845-0482 Grant District I: Carolyln Hamilton; Phil Reed. Fax: (304) 843-1074 Grant District II: (Vacancies). www.marshallcountywv.org Grant District III: William G. Drennen; Kandice Nuzum. Municipalities: Benwood, Cameron, Glen Dale, Mannington City District: Thomas Snodgrass; McMechen, Moundsville, Wheeling. Giulia Ice. County Seat: Moundsville. Mannington District: (Vacancies). Magisterial Districts (3): Districts No. 1, No. 2, North Lincoln District: (Vacancies). No. 3. South Lincoln District: (Vacancies). Voting Precincts: 44. Union District I: Charles Reed; Rebecca Polis. Area: 315.26 square miles. Union District II: (Vacancies). Population (2010 Census): 33,107. Union District III: Jo Ann Williams; Doug Martin. Winfield District: Rick Starn; (Vacancy). COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Moundsville, unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (2nd Judicial Circuit) Judges: David W. Hummel, (D); (Vacancy). Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in March, July, and November. Circuit Clerk: David R. Ealy, (R). Court Reporters: D. Shannon Blankenship; Holly Kocher. Commissioner (Part I and Part II): Jeff Kessler, Glen Dale. General Receiver (Part I and Part II): Bernard Twigg. Mental Hygiene Commissioner: Patricia Kurelac. Adult Probation Officers: Rick Szeligo; Brandy Whitlatch. Juvenile Probation Officers: Scott Mealy; Brandy Whitlatch. Magistrates: David M. Buzzard, (D); Mark A. Kerwood, (D); David McLaughlin, (D). Family Court Judge: Robert C. Hicks, (D). SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 909

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: MASON Christopher Kessler, (D), McMechen. Formed in 1804 from the western portion of Board of Education: Beth Phillips; Lori Kestner; Kanawha County and named for George Mason, Tom Gilbert; John W. Miller; Duane Miller. author of the constitution of Virginia and a County Clerk: Jan Pest, (D). member of the convention that framed the U.S. County Commission: Stanley C. Stewart, (R), Constitution. Glen Dale; Scott G. Varner, (D), Moundsville; Robert A. Miller, Jr., (R), Wheeling. This county was a part of the proposed colony of Administrator: Elizabeth Frohnapfel, (D). Vandalia, the capital of which was to have been Fiduciary Commissioners: John Chase IV; named Point Pleasant. Among the earlier visitors Adam Barney. here were Robert D. LaSalle (1669); Pierre Joseph Terms of Court: First Tuesday in January, April, Celoron (1750); and George Washington (1770). July, and October. Prosecuting Attorney: Jeffrey D. Cramer, (D). Lakin State Hospital was located at Lakin Sheriff: Kevin Cecil, (D). (unincorporated). Medical Examiner: Dr. Michael Wayt. County Superintendent of Schools: Michael Hince. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Emergency Services Director: Thomas D. Hart. electric power, coal, polyester resins, plastic film, 4-H Club Agent: Lisa Ingram. flame retardant plasticizers, synthetic hydraulic Families and Health Agent: Cheryl Kaczor. fluids and lubricants, jet aircraft lubricants; salt President, Farm Bureau: Charlie Wilfong. and brine, hay and grain, tobacco, livestock, dairy Community Educational Outreach Service products, poultry, fruit and vegetables. President: Mae Crow. Board of Health: Donald K. Mason, (R), chair; Mason County Commission Shirley Byard, (D); Robert W. Riggenbach, (D); 200 Sixth Street Carol L. Wade, (R); Janet Kendzierski (R). Point Pleasant, WV 25550 Health Officer: Kenneth J. Allen, M.D. Phone: (304) 675-1110 District 6 Engineering Manager: Gus Suwald. Fax: (304) 675-4982 www.masoncounty.wv.gov DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Municipalities: Hartford, Henderson, Leon, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mason, New Haven, Point Pleasant. Officers County Seat: Point Pleasant. Chair: Kathy Stalnaker. Magisterial Districts (4): District I, District II, Vice Chair: John Bowman. District III, District IV. Secretary: Susan Reilly. Voting Precincts: 30. Treasurer: Tammy Hill. Area: 445.75 square miles. Members Population (2010 Census): 27,324. Barbara Scott; Susan Reilly; Kathy Stalnaker; John Bowman; Tom Stalnaker; Sonny Oakland; Karen Baker; Tammy Hill; John COUNTY OFFICIALS Duffy; Bernadette Kime; Rhonda Kaufman; (Post office address Point Pleasant, Ruth Anderson; John Briggs; Kevin Kaufman; unless otherwise indicated) Keith Hughes. Circuit Court (5th Judicial Circuit) Judges: Thomas C. Evans, III, (R), Ripley; David W. Nibert, (D). REPUBLICAN COUNTY Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE January, May, and September. Officers Circuit Clerk: Bill Withers, (D). Chair: Ron Morris Court Reporters: John Berkhouse. Vice Chair: (Vacancy). Probation Officer: Kelli Guarrieri; Chris Secretary: (Vacancy). Thomas. Treasurer: (Vacancy). Magistrates: Gail L. Roush, (R); Cheryl Miller- Members Ross, (D). Virginia M. Martin; Brian S. Long; Janet E. Family Court Judges: Constance Fisher Grose; Ronald Morris; Carol Wood; Thomas, (D), New Haven; Rebecca Stafford (Vacancies). Cornett. (R), Cottageville. 910 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS REPUBLICAN COUNTY Assessor: Ronald L. Hickman, (D). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Board of Education: Tom Nunnery; Jared Officers Billings; Dale Shobe; Paul Sayre; Greg Fowler. Chair: Chris Burris. County Clerk: Diana N. Cromley, (D). Co-Chair: (Vacancy). County Commission: Miles S. Epling, (R); Treasurer: (Vacancy). Tracy Dootlittle, (R); Rick L. Handley, (D). Members Terms of Court: Last three Thursday evenings District I: Sarah Stover, Mason; Randy Thorne, each month. Point Pleasant. Prosecuting Attorney: Craig Tatterson, (R). District II: Diane Buck, Leon; Merlie Hart, Sheriff:Greg Powers, (D). Leon; Gary Peck, Leon; Curtis McConihay, Fiduciary Commissioners: Stephen Littlepage, Point Pleasant. (D); Cary B. Supple, (R); (Vacancies). District III: Donna Akers, Point Pleasant; Keith Coroner: (Vacancy). Sargent, Point Pleasant; Jacob Hill, Point County Superintendent of Schools: Jack Cullen. Pleasant; Brenda Adkins, Point Pleasant. Emergency Services Director: Chuck Blake. District IV: Willy Jordan, Gallipolis Ferry; County Agricultural Agent: Rodney Carolyn Tolliver, Ashton; Harry James “Jim” Wallbrown. Butler, Henderson. Home Economics and 4-H Leaders Association: Lorrie Wright, Program Assistant. President, Farm Bureau: Danny Fogelsong. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Carolyn Litchfield. McDOWELL Board of Health: Winona McKinney, (R); Created in 1858 from Tazewell County (Virginia) Janette Bowen, (D); Amy Roush, (D); Diane and named in honor of James McDowell, governor Epling, (R); Marketta Crum, (R). of Virginia, 1843-1846. Health Officer: Curtis Pack, M.D. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Paul Ernest Panther State Park, Anawalt Lake and Berwind Watterson, (R). Lake Public and Fishing areas are located in this county.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Leading industries and chief agricultural products: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE large coal-producing county; lumber, natural gas. Officers Chair: Tom McNealy. McDowell County Commission Vice-Chair: Bonnie Fruth. 90 Wyoming Street Secretary: Samantha Fooce. Welch, WV 24801 Treasurer: Kevin Fooce. Phone: (304) 436-8548 Parliamentarian: Ashley Wood. Fax: (304) 436-8572 Members www.mcdowellcounty.wv.gov District I: Ernie Compson, Clifton; James McCormick II, New Haven; Peggy Huff, New Municipalities: Anawalt, Bradshaw, Davy, Gary, Haven; Agnes Roush, Mason. Iaeger, Keystone, Kimball, Northfork, War, District II: Willie Livingston, Leon; Shirley Welch. Livingston, Leon; Floyd Sayre, Point Pleasant; County Seat: Welch. Bonnie J. Fruth, Point Pleasant. Magisterial Districts (4): Big Creek, Browns District III: Tom McNeely, Point Pleasant; Creek, North Elkins, Sandy River. Ashley Wood, Point Pleasant; Kevin Fooce, Voting Precincts: 37. Point Pleasant; Samantha Fooce, Point Area: 538.40 square miles. Pleasant. Population (2010 Census): 22,113. District IV: Randall Mayes, Ashton; Freda Mayes, Ashton. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 911

COUNTY OFFICIALS DEMOCRATIC COUNTY (Post office address Welch, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE unless otherwise indicated) Officers Circuit Court (8th Judicial Circuit) Chair: Donald L. Hicks. Judges: Rudolph J. Murensky II, chief judge, First Vice Chair: (Vacancy). (D); Booker T. Stephens, (D). Treasurer: Earl Crigger, War. Terms of Circuit Court: Third Monday in Secretary: Katie Linkous, War. February, June, and October. Parliamentarian: (Vacancy). Circuit Clerk: Francine Spencer, (D). Members Court Reporters: Carolyn DiLorenzo; Rose Big Creek District: Katie Linkous, War; Fullen. Richard Earl Crigger, War. Law Clerks: Robbie Dumapit, for Murensky; Browns Creek District: Harold McBride, Sr.; Lindsay Salamon, for Stephens. Kathleen Dudley. General Receiver: Philip LaCaria. North Elkin District: Vanessa White, Magistrates: Richard Vandyke; Steve Cox; Northfork; William Chapman, Anawalt. Danny Mitchell. Sandy River District: Joe Ford, Iaeger; Linda Family Court Judges: Lisa Clark, chief; Mary Lester White, Paynesville. Ellen Griffith; Anthony Bisaha.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY COUNTY OFFICERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Assessor: Dennis Altizer, (D), Caretta. Officers Board of Education: Mike Calloway; Margaret Chair: Mike Lushbaugh. Beavers, Big Creek; Mike Mitchem, Iaeger; Secretary/Treasurer: (Vacancy). Georgia M. West, Roderfield; David Williams, Members Big Creek. Big Creek District: (Vacancies). County Clerk: Donald L. Hicks, (D). Browns Creek District: (Vacancies). County Commission: Gordon Lambert, (D), North Elkins District: (Vacancies). president, Pageton; Cecil Patterson, Big Creek, Sandy River District: (Vacancies). (D); Harold McBride, (D), Welch. Prosecuting Attorney: Eddie Kornish, (D). Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys: Melissa D. Davis; Jason R. Grubb; Emily Miller. Sheriff:Martin West, Roderfield. MERCER Fiduciary Commissioner: Philip LaCaria, (D). Established in 1837 from parts of Giles and Coroner: (Vacancy). Tazewell counties (Virginia) and named in honor County Superintendent of Schools: Nelson Spencer. of General Hugh Mercer of Revolutionary War WVU Extension Agent: Donald Reed, Jr. fame. Board of Health: Madeline Ciampanella, Roderfield, chair; June Lambert, Pinnacle Rock State Park and Camp Creek State Roderfield; Dr. David Car, Gary; Gordon O. Forest are located in this county. Lambert, Pageton; Harold Smith, Kimball. Health Officer: RuPerto Dumapit, M.D. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Nurses: Shannon Hardee, LPN; Ronda Wilson, coal, lumber manufacturing; tourism; hay and R.N.; Chris Lester, physician’s assistant. grain, dairying, livestock, poultry. Clerks: Melissa Green, office assistant; Debra Chaffins, office assistant II - finance. Mercer County Commission Maintenance: Harold Wayne England; Samuel 1501 West Main Street B. Parker. Princeton, WV 24740 Sanitarian: J. J. Rose III. Phone: (304) 487-8308 Road Maintenance Superintendent: (Vacant). Fax: (304) 487-8370 www.mercercounty.wv.gov 912 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Municipalities: Athens, Bluefield, Bramwell, County Agricultural Agent: Jodi Richmond. Matoaka, Oakvale, Princeton. Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program County Seat: Princeton. Outreach Instructors: Elaine Tiller. Magisterial Districts (3): 1, 2, 3. Family and Consumer Sciences Agent: Andi Voting Precincts: 49. Bennett. Area: 423.91 square miles. President, Farm Bureau: Frank Nash. Population (2010 Census): 62,264. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Doris Lynch. County Extension Agent, 4-H: Brenda Pruett. COUNTY OFFICIALS Board of Health: Mike Vinciguerra, (D); Dr. (Post office address Princeton, Randy Maxwell, (D); Dr. Robert R. Stevens, unless otherwise indicated) (R); Paul Hodges, (D); Gene Buckner, (R). Circuit Court (9th Judicial Circuit) Health Officer: Kathleen E. Wides, M.D. Judges: Derek C. Swope, (D); William J. Sadler, Registered Sanitarians: Andrew Whittaker; (D); Omar Aboulhosn, (D). Carl Carter; Susan Kader. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Road Maintenance Superintendent: Tom February, June, and October. Camden. Circuit Clerk: Julia Ball, (D). Court Reporters: Veronica Bird; Rosemary Hickerson. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Commissioners: Guy W. Perkins, (D); Joseph EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE M. Sanders, Jr., (D); Randall L. Veneri, (D); Officers Robert Holroyd, (D); David Burton, (D); Chair: Doris Irwin. Robert M. Richardson, (D); Harold D. District 1 Coordinator: Deirdre Guyton. Brewster, (R); Thomas Lilly, (R); Rebecca Bell, District 2 Coordinator: Anita Skeens Caldwell. (R); Joseph F. Long, (D); William S. Winfrey District 3 Coordinator: Debra Cecil. II, (D). First Vice Chair: Blaine Cecil. Probation Officers: Joseph Allen; Stephen Slade; Secretary: (Vacancy). Greg Arnold; David Woolwine; Kerry Buzzo; Treasurer: Deirdre Guyton. Jennifer Johnson; Kimberly Moore; Krista Members Ellison; Nola Ingram. District 1: Deirdre Guyton, Bluefield; Floyd Magistrates: Sandra Dorsey; Jim Dent; Charles Graham, Bluefield; Donald Sternoff, Bluefield. Poe; Susan Honaker; Michael D. Flanigan. District 2: Anita Skeens Caldwell; Robert Seay; Family Court Judges: Mary Ellen Griffith; Lisa David Miller, Princeton; Bill Morefield, Kay Clark; Anthony Bisaha. Princeton. District 3: Debra Cecil, Rock; Doris Irwin, COUNTY OFFICERS Princeton; John Boyd, Jr., Princeton; Blaine Assessor: Sharon Gearhart, (D). Cecil, Rock. Board of Education: J.B.Hurt, Bluefield; Paul Hodges, Athens; Mary Alice Kaufman; Gene Bailey, Camp Creek; Gregory S. Prudich. REPUBLICAN COUNTY County Clerk: Verlin T. Moye, (D). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE County Commission: Gene Buckner (R) Officers Princeton; Greg Puckett (R), Athens; Mike Chair: Kathy Shott. Vinciguerra, (D), Bluefield. Vice Chair: Joseph Lackey. County Coordinator: Vicky Reed. Secretary: Paula Brooks. Terms of Court: Second Monday in February, Treasurer: Paul Canterbury. June, and October. Attorney: William Stafford. Prosecuting Attorney: Scott Ash, (D). Members Sheriff:Don B. Meadows, (D). District 1: Kathy Shott; Marty Gearhart; John Fiduciary Commissioners: Robert E. Holroyd, Shott; Joseph Lackey. Princeton; Wayne Stonestreet, Bluefield; John District 2: Paula Brooks; Brenda Mann; Dr. Joe Shott, Bluefield. Ellington; Marshall Mann. County Superintendent of Schools: Deborah S. District 3: Yvonne Dickerson; Paul Canterbury; Akers. Jim Lilly. Emergency Services Director: Timothy Farley. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 913

County Commission: MINERAL Richard Lechliter, (R); Created in 1866 from Hampshire County and Jerry Whisner, (R), Roger Leatherman, (R). County Coordinator: so named because of the mineral resources found Michael Bland. Terms of Court: there. Important frontier forts were located in the Second Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.; county during Indian Wars. fourth Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. Prosecuting Attorney: James W. Courrier, Jr. (R). Assistant Prosecuting Attorney: Monument erected on Mikes Run, near Antioch, Frank Cody at birthplace of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Pancake, III. Sheriff: Lincoln. Jeremy Taylor, (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: Roy Hardy, (D); Ashby’s Fort, at Fort Ashby, built in 1755, is the (Vacancies). County Superintendent of Schools: only Indian fort in West Virginia and one of the Sean Dilly. Emergency Services Director: few east of the Mississippi left standing. William Hentosh. County Agricultural Agent: Stacy Huffman. 4-H Agent: Leading industries: paper and national defense Margaret Miltenberger. President, Farm Bureau: weapons. Chief agricultural products: coal, Jim Kauffman. Community Educational Outreach Service lumber, fruit, hay and grain, livestock, dairying, President: poultry. Shirley Bland. Board of Health: Richard Lechliter; Patricia Mineral County Commission Droppleman; William Ludwick, II; Geri Mason. Health Officer: 150 Armstrong Street Dr. Charles Bess. Nurses: Keyser, WV, 26726 Cynthia Whitt; Virginia Brown; Gina Phone: (304)788-5921 White. Sanitarians: Fax: (304)788-0768 A. J. Root; John Delsignore; Denny www.mineralcountywv.com Taketa. Road Maintenance Superintendent: (Vacancy). Municipalities: Carpendale, Elk Garden, Keyser, Piedmont, Ridgeley. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY County Seat: Keyser. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Magisterial Districts (3): One, Two, Three. Officers Voting Precincts: 30. Chair: Area: 330 square miles. David Webb. Vice Chair: Population (2010 Census): 28,212. Karen Rolls. Secretary: Mary Kaye Staggers. Treasurer: Robert E. Eagle, Jr. COUNTY OFFICIALS Members District 1: (Post office address Keyser, David Webb, Burlington; Jean unless otherwise indicated) Braithwaite, Elk Garden; Tom Braithwaite, Circuit Court (21st Judicial Circuit) Elk Garden; Mary Kaye Staggers; Burlington. District 2: Judges: Philip B. Jordan, Jr., (D); Lynn A. Karen Rolls, Kayser; (Vacancies). District 3: Nelson, (R), Ridgeley. Krista Manna, Fort Ashby; (Vacancies). Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in January; first Tuesday in May and September. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Circuit Clerk: Krista Johnson Dixon, (R). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE General Receiver: (Vacancy). Officers Magistrates: David Harman, (R); Patrick Chair: Amoroso, (D). Gary Howell. Vice-Chair: Family Court Judge: Glen Stotler, (R), Berkeley Monroe Johnson. Secretary: Springs. Eric Murphy. Treasurer: Allen Hanson. Members COUNTY OFFICERS District 1: Jill Cosner, Vicki Kimble, Roger Assessor: Renee Amtower, (R). Leatherman, Jeremy Taylor. District 2: Board of Education: Kevin Watson; Craig Rose Ann Hanna-Maine; Lucy Rotruck; Lara Courrier; William Ludwick, II; Rotruck; Gary Howell, Jerry Whisner. District 3: William Wahl Jr. Jeff Conley; Allen Hanson, Sara County Clerk: Lauren Ellifritz, (R). Geis, Debra Shipway. 914 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Emergency Services Director: Doug Goosley. MINGO County 4-H Director: Youngest county in the state, formed from Logan Mark Whitt. Board of Health: County in 1895 and named for the Indian tribe of Greg (Hootie) Smith; Ray which Logan was chief. Curry; Robert Smith. Health Officer: Dr. Vellaiappan Soma, M.D. Chief Sanitarian: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Brett Vance. Road Maintenance Superintendent: coal, lumber; livestock, corn, potatoes. Ray Messer. Mingo County Commission 75 E Second Street DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Williamson, WV, 25661 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Phone: (304) 235-0380 Officers Fax: (304) 235-0365 Chair: www.mingocountywv.com Truman Chafin. Vice Chair: Freddie Newsome. Secretary: Municipalities: Delbarton, Gilbert, Kermit, Lisa Kirk. Treasurer: Matewan, Williamson. Irene Toler. Members County Seat: Williamson. Williamson District: Magisterial Districts (7): Beech-Ben-Mate, Frances Crawford, Hardee, Kermit-Harvey, Lee, Magnolia, Stafford, Williamson; Freddie Newsome, Williamson. Tug-Hardee District: Tug-Williamson. Lisa Kirk, Lenore; Jerome Voting Precincts: 39. Marcum, Nolan. Magnolia District: Area: 423.50 square miles. Stephanie Woolum, Varney; Population (2010 Census): 26,839. David Justice, Delbarton. Beech-Ben-Mate District: Effie Irene Toler, Wharncliffe; Dan Kinder, North Matewan. COUNTY OFFICIALS Kermit-Harvey District: Emily Howell, (Post office address Williamson, Marrowbone; Ernest Williams, Marrowbone. Lee District: unless otherwise indicated) Jearlene Maynard, Delbarton; Circuit Court (30th Judicial Circuit) Glenn D. Canada; Delbarton. Stafford District: Judge: Miki Thompson, (D). Phyllis White, Gilbert; Jim Terms of Circuit Court: Third Monday in Hatfield, Gilbert. January, April and September. Circuit Clerk: Grant Preece, (D). REPUBLICAN COUNTY Court Reporter: Bonnie Gilman. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Probation Officers: Carla Preece; Marsha Price. Officers Magistrates: Pam Newsome; Deloris Chair: Sidebottom; Jim Harvey. Russell Deskins. Acting Treasurer: Family Court Judge: Miki Thompson, (D). Linda Deskins. Members Williamson District: (Vacancies). COUNTY OFFICERS Tug-Hardee District: (Vacancies). Magnolia District: Assessor: Ramona Mahon, (D). (Vacancies). Beech-Ben-Mate District: Board of Education: David Farley; Mark (Vacancies). Kermit-Harvey District: Colegrove; Jackie Branch; June Glover. (Vacancies). Lee District: County Clerk: Jim Hatfield, (D). (Vacancies). Stafford District: County Commission: John Mark Hubbard, (Vacancies). (D), President; Diann Hannah, (D); Greg Smith (D). Terms of Court: First and third Wednesdays. Prosecuting Attorney: Teresa Maynard, (D). Sheriff:James Smith, (D). Fiduciary Commissioner: Mark Mitchell, (D). Coroner: Mike Casey. County Superintendent of Schools: Dr.Robert Bobbera SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 915

COUNTY OFFICERS MONONGALIA Assessor: Formed in 1776 from the District of West Augusta Mark Musick, (D). Board of Education: (Virginia) and named for the . Barbara Parsons; Nancy Part of Coopers Rock State Forest is located in this A. Walker; Clarence Harvey, Jr.; Mike Kelly; county. Ron Lytle. County Clerk: Carye L. Blaney, (D). County Commission: Home of West Virginia University and the Eldon A. Callen, (D); Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System. Tom Bloom, (D); Edward A. Hawkins, (R). Terms of Court: Wednesday morning each Leading industries and chief agricultural products: week. Prosecuting Attorney: chemicals, coal, glass and glassware, petroleum, Marcia L. Ashdown, (D). Sheriff: lumber; livestock, hay and grain, dairying, fruit, Kenneth A. Kisner, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: vegetables, poultry. Lynne C. Crane, (R); George Armstead, (D); Cynthia J. Van Monongalia County Commission Stafford, (D). County Superintendent of Schools: 243 High Street Frank D. Morgantown, WV, 26505 Devono. Director, Emergency Services: Phone: (304)291-7257 Michael Wolfe. Extension Agent-Agriculture: Fax: (304) 291-7288 H. R. Scott. Extension Agent-4-H: www.co.monongalia.wv.us Becca Fint-Clark. President, Farm Bureau: Mike Morris. President, Community Educational Outreach Municipalities: Blacksville, Granville, Service: Morgantown, Star City, Westover. Harriet Colebank. Extension Agent-Families and Health: County Seat: Morgantown. Eric Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Eastern, Murphy. Board of Health: Western. Toni Di Chiacchio; Ken Voting Precincts: 53. Weiss; Donna Tennant; Sam Chico III; Keith Area: 368.82 square miles. Zullig. Executive Director/Health Officer: Population (2010 Census): 96,189. Lee B. Smith, M.D., J.D. Program Manager of Enhanced Health/ COUNTY OFFICIALS Nutrition Services: Anne MacBride, R.D. Program Manager of Public Environmental (Post office address Morgantown, Health Services: unless otherwise indicated) John Welch. Circuit Court (17th Judicial Circuit) Program Manager of Dentistry: Dr. Daniel Judges: Russell M. Clawges, Jr., (D); Susan B. Carrier. Public Health Nursing Services: Tucker, (D); Phillip D. Gaujot, (D). Cindy Terms of Circuit Court: First Thursday after Graham. Threat Preparedness Coordinator: first Monday in January, May, and September. Randy Circuit Clerk: Jean Friend, (D). Williams. Sanitarians: Court Reporters: Julie Blosser; Christine Todd Powroznik; Joseph Lawson; Morrow. Richard McCord; Chris Nestor; Daniel Commissioners of the Circuit Court: Monica McNeil; Jonathan Monroe; Ryan Walthers; Haddad, (R); Stephen K. Shuman, (R); Brittany Wiles. DOH Road Maintenance County Raymond Yackel, (D). Administrator: General Receiver: James A. Gianola, (D). Satwindar Singh. Chief Probation Officer: Leisa Riedeman. Probation Officers: Lisa Park; Carlton Thompson; Curtis Baines; William Hinerman; Nikki Berger; Darral Bennett; Laura Demnard; Justin Kreger; Vicky Jones. Magistrates: Darris J. Summers, (D); Hershel R. Mullins, (D); James E. Nabors, (D); Sandra K. Holepit (D). Family Court Judges: Patricia Tolle Hill, (D); Randal A. Minor, (D). 916 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONROE Created from Greenbrier County in 1799 and Officers named for , fifth President of the Chair: Kelly J. Palmer. United States. First Vice Chair: Sanford Barton. Second Vice Chair: Carye L. Blaney. Rehoboth Church, near Union, erected in 1786, Secretary: Donna J. Hidock. is the oldest Methodist Church west of the Treasurer: (Vacancy). Alleghenies. The edifice is in an almost perfect Associate Chair: Robert Musick. state of preservation. Parliamentarian: Allen Sharp. Associate Secretary: Charlene Marshall. Home county of Andrew S. Rowan, of Spanish- Members American War fame, immortalized in Elbert District 1: Charlotte M. Teets; Ronald P. Justice. Hubbard’s classic “A Message to Garcia.” District 2: Richard Gutmann; (Vacancy). District 3: Allen Sharp; Sharon Summers. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: District 4: Kathleen Abate; Allen Kisner. lumber, rubber fabricators; tobacco, hay and grain, District 5: Juli Hatcher Mock; David Satterfield. livestock, poultry, dairying, manufactured stone. District 6: Shirley Martin; Mark Musick. District 7: Cathy Golleher; Bader Giggenbach. Monroe County Commission District 8: Gary Furbee; (Vacancy). 350 Main Street District 9: D. Jean Friend; Nathan Bartolo. Union, WV, 24983 District 10: Carye L. Blaney; Tom Bloom. Phone: (304) 772-3096 District 11: Kendra Zara; Sanford Barton. Fax: (304) 772-4191 District 12: Cindy Owens; Creig Owens. www.monroecountywv.net Democratic Women: Cindy Jones; Nancy Jamison. Municipalities: *Alderson, Peterstown, Union. West Virginia University Young Democrats: County Seat: Union.

Marshall Amores. Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Eastern, Western. Voting Precincts: 18. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Area: 473.80 square miles. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Population (2010 Census): 13,502 Officers Chair: George J. Papandreas. *Also in Greenbrier County. Secretary: Paula Martinelli. Treasurer: Jeannine Powell. Members COUNTY OFFICIALS District 1: (Vacancies). (Post office address Union, District 2: Sieglinde McGrinnis; (Vacancy. unless otherwise indicated) District 3: Jim Shaffer; (Vacancy). Circuit Court (31st Judicial Circuit) District 4: (Vacancy). Judge: Robert A. Irons, (D). District 5: Marlene Frich; John Frich. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday District 6: Mary Belle Rowe; Roger Bell. in January, third Tuesday in May, and second District 7: Jeanine Powell; Barton Loar. Tuesday in September. District 8: Paula Martinelli; James Walls. Circuit Clerk: Leta Gullette-Comer, (D). District 9: Pam Krushansky; Charles Krushansky. Court Reporter: Ann Owens. District 10: Gary Insch; Alison Woods. Probation Officers: Matthew McMillian; Karen District 11: Pamela Lynn Poe; Kevin Scott Poe. Childs, Amy Hunt; Frank Basile. District 12: (Vacancy). Magistrates: Nancy Crews (D); Kevin Miller, (R). Family Court Judge: David M. Sanders. (D), Alderson. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 917

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: MORGAN Norbert Netzel, (D), Union. Formed in 1820 from parts of Hampshire Board of Education: Danny Lively; Candace and Berkeley counties and named in honor of Sabol; Charles Sams; Dixie Hoke-Webb; General Daniel Morgan, prominent soldier of the Barbara Fisher. Revolutionary War. County Clerk: Donald J. Evans, (D), Peterstown. Cacapon State Park and Timber Ridge Bass County Commission: Michael Shane Ashley, Hatchery are located in this county. (D); William Miller, (R); Clyde Gum, Jr., (R). Terms of Court: First and third Wednesday of Leading industries and chief agricultural products: each month. glass, sand; tomatoes, fruit, rye. Prosecuting Attorney: Justin St. Clair, (D). Sheriff:Michael Gravely, (R). Morgan County Commission Surveyor: David Holz, (D). 77 Fairfax Street Fiduciary Commissioners: Debra L. Dalton, Berkeley Springs, WV, 25411 (D); Susan Cobb, (R). Phone: (304) 258-8540 County Superintendent of Schools: Joetta Fax: 304-258-7305 Basile. www.morgancountywv.gov Emergency Management Director: Jeff Jones. County Extension Agent: Brian Wickline. Municipalities: Berkeley Springs, Paw Paw. Community Educational Outreach Service County Seat: Berkeley Springs. President: Doris Ann Taylor. Magisterial Districts (3): 1, 2, 3. President, Farm Bureau: James O. Gore. Voting Precincts: 13. Board of Health: Janet Caulkins; Shirley Dixon; Area: 231.26 square miles. Petrie Brown; Shelby Jennings; Sue Clewell. Population (2010 Census): 17,541. Health Officer: Dr. Travis Hansbarger. Health Nurse: Julie Mundell. Chief Sanitarian: David Johnson. COUNTY OFFICIALS Road Maintenance Superintendent: Greg (Post office address Berkeley Springs, Sibold. unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (23rd Judicial Circuit) Judges: Gray Silver III, (D), Martinsburg; David DEMOCRATIC COUNTY H. Sanders, (D), Charles Town; Christopher EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE C. Wilkes, (R), Martinsburg; John Yoder, (R), Officers Charles Town, Michael D. Lorensen, (R), Chair: Scott Williams. Martinsburg. Treasurer: Richard Dulee. Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Members January, April, and September. Eastern District: Richard Dulee; (Vacancy). Circuit Clerk: Kimberly J. Hanback, (R). Central District: Scott Williams; (Vacancy) Court Reporters: Terry Hamrick, Charles Western District: (Vacancies). Town; Tracy Herron; Marcy Chandler, Martinsburg; Laura Hall; Kate Slayden. General Receiver: Arnold K. Stotler. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Probation Officers: Danielle Robertson; Sean EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Bryner. Officers Magistrates: Greg Miller, (R); Kermit Ambrose, Chairperson: Duane Miller. (R). Vice Chair: Sylvia Riffe. Family Court Judge: Glen R. Stotler (R). Members Eastern District: Duane Miller; Nancy Miller; (Vacancies). COUNTY OFFICERS Central District: Bob Via; Jeff Bumgardner; Assessor: Ronald G. McIntire, (R). Shirley Dixon; Susan Bumgardner. Board of Education: David Ambrose, president; Western District: Clarence Leroy Miller; Aaron Close, assistant president Laura Smith, (Vacancies). Patricia Springer; John Rowland. County Clerk: Debra A. Kesecker, (R). 918 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

County Commission: Bradley Close, (R), NICHOLAS President; Robert Ford (R), Joel Tuttle, (R). Formed in 1818 from parts of Kanawha, Terms of Court: Two times per month. Greenbrier and Randolph counties and named Prosecuting Attorney: Debra McLaughlin, (R). for , governor of Virginia, Sheriff: Vincent Shambaugh, (R). 1814-1816. Carnifex Ferry Battlefield Park and Fiduciary Commissioners: C. W. Harmison, part of Monongahela National Forest are located (R); George McVey, (R); David DeJarnett, (D). in this county. County Superintendent of Schools: David Banks. Emergency Services Director: Dick Myers. The Summersville Reservoir project is located in County Extension Agent: Cindy Smalley. Nicholas County on the Gauley River. The dam President, Farm Bureau: Lin Dunham. is approximately four miles south-southwest of Community Educational Outreach Service Summersville, 42 miles east of Charleston and President: Priscilla Simmons, Great Cacapon. 210 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. Board of Health: Elizabeth Spring; Sanford Length, 13.7 miles; drainage area, 2,723 miles. Bienen; Lynn Hall; (Vacancy). Health Officer: Dr. Cameron Duffy. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Sanitarians: Bob Stumpff; Bruce Ullom. Lumber, ; SMR Engineered Rubber Road Maintenance Superintendent: John Products, Columbia West Virginia Plywood, Jeld- Coleman. wen; livestock; river rafting.

Nicholas County Commission DEMOCRATIC COUNTY 700 Main Street EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Summersville, WV, 26651 Officers Phone: (304) 872-7830 Chairperson: Jim Hoyt. Fax: (304) 872-9602 First Vice Chairperson: (Vacancy). www.nicholascountywv.org Second Vice Chairperson: (Vacancy). Secretary: (Vacancy). Municipalities: Richwood, Summersville. Treasurer: Sue Schultz. County Seat: Summersville. Members Magisterial Districts (3): Birch; Cherry; Gauley. District 1: Jerry Berman; Jim Hoyt; Sally Voting Precincts: 28. Berman; Mary Ellen Largent. Area: 656.77 square miles. District 2: Connie Perry; Hazel May Waugh; Population (2010 Census): 26,233. Jack Kelly; Jeremiah Clark. District 3: Sue Jones Schultz; Anna L. Riggleman; John L. Petersen; Larry Schultz. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Summersville, unless otherwise indicated) REPUBLICAN COUNTY Circuit Court (28th Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judge: Gary L. Johnson, (D), Richwood. Officers Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in Chair: Carl Cowgill. January, May and September. Vice Chair: Tricia Strader. Circuit Clerk: Debbie Facemire, (D). Secretary: Patricia Fields. Court Reporter: Sheri Young, (D). Treasurer: C. William Harmison. Mental Hygiene Commissioners: Kenneth Members Barnett; William Brad Dorsey. District 1: Ida Mae Kidwell; Isaac Bohrer; Carl General Receiver: William Brad Dorsey. Cowgill. Probation Officers: Mike Williams; Levi Bragg; District 2: Rick Kesecker; Tricia Strader; Eric Kristen DeRito. Pritchard. Magistrates: John D. Morton, Jr.; Doren Wayne District 3: Patricia Fields; Kevin McLaughlin; Plummer; Sara Meadows Brown. C. William Harmison. Family Court Judge: Donald Bischoff. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 919

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: OHIO Ernie Dennison, Jr., (D). Formed in 1776 from the District of West Board of Education: Phil Berry; Lloyd Adkins; Augusta* (Virginia) and named for the county’s Bob O’Dell; Darrell White; Fred Amick. principal river, the Ohio, Indian name for “great County Clerk: Audra Deitz, (D). river.” One of the first counties in Virginia County Commission: Kenneth Altizer, (D), organized west of the Allegheny Mountains. president; Lyle Neal, (D); John Miller, (D). Terms of Court: First and third Tuesday. West Liberty (unincorporated), established in Prosecuting Attorney: James Milam II, (D). 1787, was the county seat from 1776 to 1797. Sheriff: David Hopkins, (D). West Liberty University, a state institution, was Surveyor: Wayne Acord. established there in 1870, and a continuation Fiduciary Commissioner: William McCourt; of West Liberty Academy, which was founded Clint Bischoff; Mark Hudnall. in 1838. Wheeling Jesuit University, a Jesuit County Superintendent of Schools: Keith Butcher. coeducational liberal arts university, was founded Emergency Services Director: Michael Judy. in 1954. West Virginia Northern Community 4-H Extension Agent: Kimary McNeil. College, created in 1972, offers a variety of Community Educational Outreach Service community-related college courses. President: Amanda Nicholas, Nettie. Board of Health: Joseph Hoffman; Robin Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Brown; Christina Chapman; Elizabeth sheet metal and tin containers and ware, iron and Morris; (Vacancy). steel, coal, paints, axes and tools, plastic products, Health Officer: Dr. Mark Wantz. stogies, chewing tobacco, meat packing, bakery Sanitarians: Rodney Boyce; Elizabeth Ratliff. products, computer ribbons and toner cartridge Road Maintenance Superintendent: Charles Reel. refiller manufacturing, custom marble tops, international food distribution, custom computers, research and development for advanced software DEMOCRATIC COUNTY technology, laboratory for new product development, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE problem solving and applied material research; Officers dairying, fruit, vegetables, hay and grain, poultry. Chair: Dan Snyder. Recording Secretary: Providencia Arabeo- Ohio County Commission Smith. 1500 Chapline Street Treasurer: Bonita Bell. Wheeling, WV, 26003 Members Phone: (304) 234-3628 Birch District: Robert Wesley Spinks; Fax: (304) 234-3827 Providencia Arabco-Smith; Arthur Smith. www.ohiocounty.wv.gov (Vacancy). Cherry District: Terry Lewis; Dan Snyder; Municipalities: Bethlehem, Clearview, Virginia Jones; Julius Jones. Triadelphia, Valley Grove, West Liberty, Gauley District: Junior Samples; David Wheeling. Meadows; (Vacancies). County Seat: Wheeling. Magisterial Districts (3): One, Two, Three. Voting Precincts: 36. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Area: 109 square miles. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Population (2010 Census): 44,443. Officers Chair: Benjean Rapp. *The District of West Augusta originally included Secretary: Richard Key. all of the lands of old Virginia from the Blue Ridge Treasurer: Laura Davis. west with the southern boundary of that state Members to the , embracing much of the Birch District: Richard Key; Rick Lilly; Dinah territory that now comprises the southwestern part Deal; Laura Davis. of Pennsylvania and most of the states of Ohio, Cherry District: Lawrence T. Beckerle; Duane and . From the original territory, Borchers; Brenda Gilbert; Jeanie Spencer. 18 or more counties in West Virginia and three in Gauley District: Benjean Rapp; Beth Mynes; Pennsylvania have been carved. Robert Dorsey; Jason Swager. 920 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICIALS Board of Health (City-County): Michael (Post office address Wheeling, Caruso; John Holloway; Wilkes Kinney; unless otherwise indicated) Cheryl Wonderly; Gloria Delbrugge; Tom Circuit Court (1st Judicial Circuit) Tuttle; Howard Gamble, Administrator. Judges: David J. Sims, (D); James P. Mazzone, Health Officer: Dr. William Mercer. (D); Ronald E. Wilson, (D), New Cumberland; Road Maintenance Superintendent: Milton M. Jason A. Cuomo, Wellsburg. Davis. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in January, May, and September. Circuit Clerk: Brenda L. Miller, (D). DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Court Reporters: Julie Kreefer; Michelle EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jaworksi; Barbara Ivaun. Officers General Receiver: Bernie Twigg. Co-Chairmen: George J. Fahey; Orphy Klempa. Magistrates: Charles W. Murphy; Harry Secretary: Peggy Niebergall. Radcliffe; Patricia L. Murphy; Joe Roxby. Treasurer: Tiffany Hoffman. Family Court Judges: William Sinclair; Joyce Members Dumbaugh Chernenko, Wellsburg. District I: Barbara Alig; Maggi Gayvont; Chad Thalman; Bob Holpp. District II: Brandie Morris; Jill Schmidt; John COUNTY OFFICERS DeLoretta; Mark Garrett. Assessor: Kathie Hoffman. District III: Peggy Niebergall; Tiffany Hoffman; Board of Education: Tim Birch; Christine Bruce Teachout; George Fahey. Carder; Shane Mallett, president; Gary Kestner, vice president; Sarah C. Koegler. County Clerk: Patricia A. Fahey, (D) (judge ex REPUBLICAN COUNTY officio, Probate Court). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE County Commission: Randy Wharton, (D), Officers President; Timothy P. McCormick, (D); Chair: Patty Levenson. Orphy Klempa, (D). Vice Chair: (Vacancy). Administrator: Gregory Stewart, (D). Secretary: Laura Chapman. Meeting Dates: First and third Tuesday of each Treasurer: Chris Elswick. month. Members Prosecuting Attorney: Scott Smith, (D). District I: Robert Luchetti Jr., Chris Elswick, Sheriff:Patrick M. Butler, (R). Carol Austin, Erika Donaghy. Juvenile Referee: Harry Radcliffe, (D). District II: Jacob Altmeyer, Ryan Ferns, Erikka Fiduciary Commissioners: Joseph J. John, (D); Storch, Linda Kerr. Jay Byrum, (R); John E. Gompers, (R); Robb District III: Laura Chapman, Matthew McCoid, (D). Chapman, Desiree Lyonette, Shane Stack. Medical Examiner: C. Robinson. County Superintendent of Schools: Diana M. Vargo, Ed.D. Emergency Management Agency Director: Lou Vargo. Agriculture, Natural Resources and Community Development Extension Agent: Karen Cox. 4-H Youth, Family and Adult Development Extension Agent: Lewis Honacker. President, Farm Bureau: . Community Educational Outreach Service President: Nancy Kish. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 921

COUNTY OFFICERS PENDLETON Assessor: Created in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy Carolyn Bible Sponaugle, (D). Board of Education: and Rockingham counties (Virginia) and named Teresa Walker Heavner, for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished statesman Eastern District; Sonny O’Neil, Western and jurist of Virginia. District; Richard Gillespie, Central District; Betty Kimble, Eastern District; J. D. Wilkins, Two Indian massacres occurred in 1758 at Fort Western District. County Clerk: Upper Tract and Fort Seybert, the Indians being Linda D. Rexrode, (D). County Commission: led by Kilbuck, a Shawnee chieftain. Randy Roberson, (D), Central District; Carl Heavener, (D); Eastern Spruce Knob, in this county, is the highest point District; Eugene “Gene” McConnell, (R), in the state, its elevation being 4,861 feet. Parts Western District. Terms of Court: of the Monongahela and George Washington First and third Tuesday of each National Forests are located in this county. month. Prosecuting Attorney: Kevin C. Sponaugle, (D). Sheriff: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Donnie Hedrick, (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: lumber; livestock, hay, grain and poultry. George I. Sponaugle, II, (D); Marla Zelene Harman, (R); Jeffrey S. Pendleton County Commission Bowers, (D). Coroner: PO Box 187, 100 South Main Street (Vacancy). County Superintendent of Schools: Franklin, WV, 26807 Douglas Phone: (304) 358-7573 Lambert. County Extension Agents: Fax: (304) 358-2473 David Seymour, (D); www.pendletoncommission.com Janice Heavner. Emergency Services Director: Bruce Minor. Economic and Community Development Municipality: Franklin. Coordinator: County Seat: Franklin. (Vacancy). Farm Bureau President: Magisterial Voting Districts: Western, Central, Kenneth Harper. Community Educational Outreach Service and Eastern. President: Tax Districts (6): Bethel; Circleville; Franklin; Vicki Skavenski. Board of Health: Mill Run; Sugar Grove; Union. Priscilla Mullenax, (D), Voting Precincts: 13. Circleville; Bob Grimm, (D), Brandywine; Area: 696.88 square miles. David Basagic, (D); Nancy Sites, (R), Upper Population (2010 Census): 7,695. Tract; Sally Dunkle, (D). Health Officer: Dr. Carmen Rexrode. Chief Sanitarian: Brooke Hott, R.S.; Kami COUNTY OFFICIALS Keyser, R.S. Public Health Nurse: (Post office address Franklin, Melissa Hartman, R.N. Road Maintenance Superintendent: unless otherwise indicated) Dywayne Circuit Court (22nd Judicial Circuit) Stout. Judge: H. Charles Carl, III; Charles E. Parsons, (R), Romney. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE March, July, and November. Officers Circuit Clerk: Shalee Dunkle Wilburn, (D). Chair: Court Reporters: Diana Rothgeb; Susan Landis. Isaac Sponaugle, Franklin. First Vice Chair/Parliamentarian: Commissioner in Chancery: Marla Zelene Carole Harman. Hartman, Franklin. Associate Chair: General Receiver: George I. Sponaugle, II, (D). Paul Morton, Franklin. Secretary: Probation Officer: Rick Pownell. Margaret Rexrode, Brandywine. Treasurer: Magistrates: Andrew M. Hinkle; Kevin Charlotte Thompson, Franklin. Members Puffenberger. Western District: Family Court Judge: Amanda H. See, Patricia Bennett, Riverton; Moorefield. Debra Judy, Riverton; George Hickey, Seneca Rocks; Carl Warner, Circleville. Central District: Susie Echols, Franklin; 922 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

Charlotte Thompson, Franklin; Christopher PLEASANTS Roberson, Franklin; Darrell Warner, Franklin. Created in 1851 from Wood, Tyler and Ritchie Eastern District: Cary Hevener, Brandywine; counties and named for , Jr., who Margaret D. Rexrode, Brandywine; Thomas represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate and who Mitchell, Sugar Grove; Samuel L. Moats, was its governor, 1822-1825. Sugar Grove. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: GAP/ENTECH, Cytec, Division of American REPUBLICAN COUNTY Cyanamid, Shelly and Sands, Inc., Teikoku USA, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Axens North America, Inc., Simonton Building Officers Products, Inc., St. Marys Refining Company, Chair: Roger Dahmer. Simex, Pleasants Energy, LLC, Alleghany Power Vice Chair: Dottie Roy. Station, petroleum; Exterran Energy Solutions, Secretary: Sandy Young. LP, Pfizer, St. Marys Correctional Center; poultry, Treasurer: Jim Young. livestock, dairying, hay and grain. Members Western District: Dottie Roy; Louise Bowers; Pleasants County Commission Jim Young. 301 Court Lane Central District: Roger Dahmer; Pam Dahmer; St. Marys, WV, 26170 Sue Sites. Phone: (304) 684-3542 Eastern District: (Vacancies). Fax: (304) 684-7569 www.pleasantscountywv.net

Municipalities: Belmont, St. Marys. County Seat: St. Marys. Magisterial Districts (4): A, B, C, D. Voting Precincts: 11. Area: 134.65 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 7,605.

COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address St. Marys, unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (3rd Judicial Circuit) Judge: Timothy L. Sweeney, (D). Term of Circuit Court: Second Monday in January, third Monday in May, and fourth Monday in September. Circuit Clerk: Millie Farnsworth, (R). Court Reporter: Debbie Windom. Probation Officer: Crystal Jinks. Magistrates: Kathy Elder; Randy Nutter. Family Court Judges: C. Darren Tallman, Parkersburg; Brian Dempster, Williamstown. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 923

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: POCAHONTAS Vickie L. Gorrell, (D). Established in 1821 from parts of Bath, Pendleton Board of Education: Jim McKnight; Sharon and Randolph counties (Virginia) and named for Gainer; Marty Lawhorn; Danny DeMoss; Pocahontas, the Indian princess. Heather Straight. County Clerk: Sue E. Morgan, (D). Eight rivers find their source in Pocahontas County Administrator: Tina Oldfield. County–Cherry, Cranberry, Williams, Gauley, County Commission: Jim Cottrill, (R); Jay Elk, Tygart Valley, Greenbrier and Shavers Fork of Powell, (D); Larry Barnhart, (D). Cheat - thus the county’s nickname, “Birthplace Terms of Court: First and third Wednesday of of Rivers.” each month. Prosecuting Attorney: Carl P. Bryant, (D). The site of the Battle of Droop Mountain, in this Sheriff: Ted Maston, (D). county, the most extensive Civil War conflict in Fiduciary Commissioners: Brian Carr, (D); the state, which occurred on November 6, 1863, Keith White, (R). was acquired by the state in 1929, and is now County Superintendent of Schools: G. Michael Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park. Wells. Emergency Services Director: Steve Knight. Other historic attractions are: Cass Scenic County Extension Agent: Claude Marra. Railroad, Cass; Pearl S. Buck Birthplace, Community Educational Outreach Service Co- Hillsboro; Pocahontas County Historical Presidents: Debbie Hadley; Vickie Gorrell. Museum, Marlinton; Locust Creek Covered Health Officer: Dr. David Avery. Bridge, near Hillsboro. Board of Health: Eleanor Little; Joyce Faller. Acting Road Maintenance Superintendent: Watoga State Park, Seneca State Forest, Calvin W. John Nichols. Price State Forest, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Snowshoe Ski Resort, Silver Creek Ski Resort, Cranberry Glades, Beartown State DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Park, part of the Monongahela National Forest EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE and the Marlinton Trout Hatchery are located in Officers this county. Chair: Harriett Fitzgerald. Secretary: Verna Kay Owens. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Treasurer: Jody Haddox. lumber, livestock, potatoes, oats, maple, sugar, Members honey, poultry. District A: John Elliott; Verna Owens. District B: Doris Holmes; Jesse Barnhart. Pocahontas County Commission District C: Jody Haddox; John Haddox. 900-C 10th Avenue District D: Doug Renner; Sharon Janes. Marlinton, WV, 24954 Phone: (304) 799-6063 Fax: (304)799-3977 REPUBLICAN COUNTY www.pocahontascounty.wv.gov EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Municipalities: Durbin, Hillsboro, Marlinton. Chair: Donna J. Boley. County Seat: Marlinton. Vice Chair: Shirley Long. Magisterial Districts (4): Edray, Green Bank, Secretary: Gladys Stephenson. Huntersville, Little Levels. Treasurer: Joyce Summers. Voting Precincts: 15. Members Area: 942.61 square miles. District A: Benjamin Hayes; Shirley Long. Population (2010 Census): 8,719. District B: Jack E. Boley; Gladys Stephenson. District C: Paul Ingram; Rebecca Ingram. District D: Don Morris; Sherry Cottrill. 924 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICIALS DEMOCRATIC COUNTY (Post office address Marlinton, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE unless otherwise indicated) Officers Circuit Court (11th Judicial Circuit) Chair: Matthew Tate. Judges: James J. Rowe, (D), Lewisburg; Robert First Vice Chair: (Vacancy). E. Richardson, (D), Lewisburg. Secretary: Christine Smith. Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in April, Treasurer: William McMann. August, and December. Parliamentarian: (Vacancy). Circuit Clerk: Connie M. Carr, (D). Members Court Reporters: Jeanne Kellison, Lewisburg; Central District: William McMann; (Vacancy). Judy Nelson, Shady Spring. Northern District: (Vacancies). Commissioners in Chancery: Martin V. Saffer, Southern District: Christine Smith; Matthew (D); Michael C. Doss, (D); Jarrell L. Clifton, Tate. II, (R); Clint Carte, public defender. Probation Officers: Robert Tooze; Tonya Hoover; Karen Lemons, JCW; Dustin Martin, REPUBLICAN COUNTY JCW. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Bureau of Child Support Enforcement: Kelly Officers K. Kemp. Chair: Jeremy Bauserman. Magistrates: Cynthia Broce-Kelley, (R); Carrie Vice Chair: Joseph W. Smith. E. Wilfong, (D). Secretary: Julia Bauserman. Family Court Judge: Jeffrey L. Hall, Diana. Treasurer: Robert Jackson. Parliamentarian: (Vacancy). Members COUNTY OFFICERS Central District: Joseph Smith; Robert Jackson; Assessor: Tom Lane, (D). Freda Jackson. Board of Education: Emery G. Grimes; Cheryl Northern District: Jeremy Bauserman; Jason Beverage; Jessica Hefner; Steve Tritapoe; Bauserman; Julia Bauserman. Norman Walker, Hillsboro. Southern District: Arthur Kreft; Mary Kreft; County Clerk: Melissa L. Bennett, (D). Blix McNeill; (Vacancy). County Commission: William S. Beard, Jr. (D), president; Jamie C. Walker, (R); David McLaughlin (D). Terms of Court: First and third Tuesday of each month. Prosecuting Attorney: Eugene M. Simmons, (D). Sheriff:David R. Jonese, (R). Fiduciary Commissioner: Michael C. Doss, (D). County Superintendent of Schools: Donald K. Bechtel, Hillsboro. Office of Emergency Services: Under authority of Pocahontas County Commission. County Extension Service Committee Chair: Donald McNeel. Extension Agents: Shirley Wilkins; Gregory Hamons. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Barbara Shinaberry. Board of Health: Delores Cutlip, chair; Jessica Shinaberry, nurse I; Luis E. Soriano, M.D.; Cynthia Wilfong, sanitarian; Jenny Friel; Jamie Walker; Donald McNeel. Health Officer: Luis E. Soriano, M.D. Sanitarian: Cynthia Wilfong. Threat Preparedness Coordinator: Cynthia Wilfong. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Sam McPaters. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 925

COUNTY OFFICERS PRESTON Assessor: Formed in 1818 from Monongalia County and Terri Funk, (R). Board of Education: named in honor of James Patton Preston, governor Robert McCrum; Kathy of Virginia, 1816-1819. McNeill; Ann Robb; Jack Keim; Chrissy Estep. County Clerk: Linda Huggins, (R). County Commission: Hopemont State Hospital is located at Hopemont Don Smith, (R), Second (unincorporated). District; David Price, (R), First District; Craig Jennings, (R), Third District. Terms of Court: Parts of Coopers Rock State Forest and the Each Monday at 9:30 a.m.; first Monongahela National Forest are located in this Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Prosecuting Attorney: county, and Arthurdale Homestead is located at Melvin C. Snyder III, (R). Sheriff: Arthurdale (unincorporated). Daniel Loughrie. Surveyor: (Vacancy). Fiduciary Commissioners: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Sheila K. Williams, coal, lumber, cement; buckwheat, hay and grain, (D); David P. Brown, (D); Woodrow Turner, poultry, maple sugar. (R); Olivia S. Harris-Devall, (NP). Coroners: Dawn Spear; Pam Thomas. Preston County Commission County Superintendent of Schools: Steve 106 West Main Street Wotring. Emergency Services Director: Kingwood, WV, 26537 Duane Hamilton. County Agricultural Agent: Phone: (304) 329-1805 William Shockey. Club Agent: Fax: (304) 329-3192 David Hartley. Nutrition Outreach Instructor: www.prestoncountywv.org Karen Bright. President, Farm Bureau: Phillip Gregg, Municipalities: Albright, Brandonville, Bruceton Masontown. Community Educational Outreach Service Mills, Kingwood, Masontown, Newburg, President: Reedsville, Rowlesburg, Terra Alta, Tunnelton. Opal Myers, Aurora. Board of Health: County Seat: Kingwood. Craig Rotruck; Kendra Magisterial Districts (3): First, Second, Third. Barker; Wayne Williams; Mary Roe Benson: Voting Precincts: 28. Rosemary Houser. Administrator: Area: 653.88 square miles. Denise Knoebel Health Officer: Population (2010 Census): 33,520. Fred Conley, Jr. Nurses: Jeannie Welch; Rita McNair. Clerk: Brenda Betler. COUNTY OFFICIALS Sanitarians: V.J. Davis. Road Maintenance Superintendent: (Post office address Kingwood, Larry unless otherwise indicated) Weaver. Circuit Court (18th Judicial Circuit) Judge: Lawrance S. Miller, Jr., (R). DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in March EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE and June; third Tuesday in October. Officers Circuit Clerk: Betsy Castle, (R). Chair: Court Reporter: (Vacancy). Nimrod Riley, Arthurdale. Vice Chair: Magistrates: Janice K. Snider; Eugene Jenkins; Sheila Kae Williams. Secretary-Treasurer: Lewis Ault. Nancy Reckart. Members Family Court Judges: Randal A. Minor, First District: Bruceton Mills; Patricia Tolle Hill, Nancy Reckart, Bruceton Mills; Morgantown. Marc “Bull” Welsh, Terra Alta; Gregory L. Moran, II, Bruceton Mills. Second District: Victoria Cole, Tunnelton; Sheila Kae Williams; Dale McCray, Terra Alta; Hoy Wiles, Terra Alta. Third District: Randy Tichnell, Thornton; Nimrod Riley, Arthurdale; Lacey Tichnell, Thornton. 926 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

REPUBLICAN COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Winfield, Officers unless otherwise indicated) Chair: Donald Smith, Terra Alta. Circuit Court (29th Judicial Circuit) Secretary: Joseph William, Kingwood. Judges: Phillip Stowers, (D), chief judge, Members Hurricane; Joseph Reeder (R). chief judge First District: Janet Ellis, Bruceton Mills; John alternates every two years. Ellis, Bruceton Mills. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in Second District: Linda Huggins, Kingwood; March; second Monday in July and November. Don Smith, Terra Alta; Robert Meissner, Circuit Clerk: Ronnie Matthews, (R). Kingwood; Shirley Hartley, Kingwood. Court Reporters: Judy Greene; Kathy Davis. Third District: Nancy Ord, Reedsville. Probation Officers (Adult): Brenda Shrader, chief probation officer; Beth Wood; Ray Herbert; Jennifer Hodges, David Lamont; Amy Sadler; LaKeisha Brown, Adult Drug Court officer. PUTNAM Probation Officers (Juvenile): Vickie Wood, Created in 1848 from parts of Kanawha, Mason Juvenile Drug Court officer, William and Cabell counties and named in honor of Delgadillo; Vickie Wood, Juvenile Drug Court General Israel Putnam, New England soldier and coordinator. patriot. Magistrates: Scot Lawrence, R; Kylene Brown, R; Linda Hunt, R; Darry Casto, chief clerk. At Scary Creek, on July 17, 1861, was fought the Family Court Judge: Richard Witt. first engagement of any note of the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. COUNTY OFFICERS Leading industries and chief agricultural Assessor: Sherry Hayes, (R). products: chemicals, electrical power generation, Board of Education: Jack Coyner, Hurricane; distribution, auto parts manufacturing; tobacco, Sam Sentelle, Hurricane; Craig Spicer, hay and grain, livestock, dairying. Hurricane; William Legg, Poca; G. Robert Cunningham, Winfield. Putnam County Commission County Clerk: Brian Wood, (R). 3389 Winfield Road County Commission: Andy Skidmore, Winfield, WV, 25213 (R), president, Eleanor; Stephen Andes, (R), Phone: (304) 586-0201 Hurricane; Joe Haynes, (R), Hurricane. Fax: (304) 586-0200 Terms of Court: Second and fourth Tuesday www.putnamcounty.org of each month. Additional meeting are held as needed. Municipalities: Bancroft, Buffalo, Eleanor, Prosecuting Attorney: Mark A. Sorsaia, (R). Hurricane, *Nitro, Poca, Winfield. Sheriff:Steve DeWeese, (R). County Seat: Winfield. Surveyor: Randy B. Crace, (D). Magisterial Districts (3): District I, District II, Fiduciary Supervisor: Jennifer Karr. District III. Deputy Fiduciary Supervisors: Nancy Voting Precincts: 47. Reishman, Hurricane; Shelly Keefer, Leon. Area: 350.57 square miles. Fiduciary Commissioners: Alexander J. Ross, Population (2010 Census): 55,486. Charleston; Tim Lafon, Charleston; Lisa Moy, Winfield; Stephen Sluss, Scott Depot. *Also in Kanawha County. County Superintendent of Schools: Harold Hatfield. Emergency Services Managers: John Dearnell, EMS Director; Frank Chapman, 911 Director/ OES. WVU Putnam County Extension Agent- Agriculture and Natural Resources: Chuck Talbott. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 927

WVU Extension Families and Health Agent: RALEIGH Tim Sayre. Created in 1850 from the southern portion of WVU Extension Adult Health Educator: Fayette County and named for Sir Walter Raleigh, Jennifer Spriggel RN, MS. the English adventurer and soldier. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Sandy Murriner. Grandview National Park, Little Beaver State WVU Extension 4-H Agent: Scott Byars. Park, Lake Stephens Park, Fitzpatrick Park, Board of Health: Brac Brown; Ryan Lockhart; Winterplace Ski Resort, New River Park, with Jim Dillon; Joe Haynes. Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and Youth Health Officer/Director: Arthur B. Rubin, DO, Museum located therein, the Tamarack arts and Charleston. craft center and the Raleigh County 4-H Camp Interim Administrator: Lolita Kirk, Charleston. are also located in this county. Sanitarians: Floyd K. Lyons, Scott Depot; Richard Snaman, RS, Eleanor. Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Nurses: Vickie Klennert, RN, Cross Lanes; health, tourism, coal and coal-related products, Sonya Jones, RN, Buffalo; Sara Hedrick, RN, timber, mining equipment, electronic parts, BSN, Scott Depot. building blocks; cattle, potatoes, peppers, corn, Road Maintenance County Supervisor: Ed strawberries, show horses--western and English Smithers. pleasure.

Raleigh County Commission DEMOCRATIC COUNTY 116 1/2 North Heber Street EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Beckley, WV, 25801 Officers Phone: (304) 255-9146 Chair: Kenneth Ragle. Fax: (304) 255-9166 Vice Chair: Karen Coria. www.raleighcounty.com Secretary: Sharon Bowles. Treasurer: Christina McCune. Municipalities: Beckley, Lester, Mabscott, Members Rhodell, Sophia. District I: Sharon Bowles; Carroll Westfall; County Seat: Beckley. Travis Hoffman. Magisterial Districts: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. District II: Karen Coria; Florence McNeely; Voting Precincts: 87. Christian Watts. Area: 610.15 square miles. District III: Christina McCune; Dot Turley; Ray Population (2010 Census): 78,859. Burke; Dan Cook.

COUNTY OFFICIALS REPUBLICAN COUNTY (Post office address Beckley, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE unless otherwise indicated) Officers Circuit Court (10th Judicial Circuit) Chair: Paul Hartling. Judges: Harry L. Kirkpatrick, III; John A. Vice Chair: Lester Searls. Hutchison, (D); Robert A. Burnside, Jr., (D). Secretary: Neuasa Trador. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Treasurer: John Gray. January, April, and September. Members Circuit Clerk: Paul Flanagan, (D). District I: Brenda Landers; Neuasa Trader; Jim Court Reporters: Peggy Brown; Karen Myers; Caruthers; Hoy Fellure. Amanda A. Meadows. District II: Shirley Searls; Nancy Foster; Ron Adult Probation Officers: Chris Houck, chief; Stone; Lester Searls. Andy Darlington; Chevene Turner; Tim Luikart. District III: Linda Hartling; Linda Gray; John Juvenile Probation Officers: Tim Erwin, chief; Gray; Michel Moffatt. Steven Sturgill; Judy Bare. Magistrates: Richard D. Jones; Tomi Peck; Stephen D. Massie; Charles R. Humphrey; Greg Tanner. Family Court Judges: Louise Staton, Mullens; H. Suzanne McGraw; K. Bruce Lazenby. 928 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS REPUBLICAN COUNTY Assessor: Drema Bias-Evans, (D). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Board of Education: Rick Snuffer, president; Officers Larry Ford; Jack “Gordy” Roop; Charlotte Chair: Charles (Chuck) H. Carpenter, Jr. Hutchens; Cindy Jaffary. First Vice Chair: Stan Norman. County Clerk: Betty Riffe, (D). Second Vice Chair: John D. O’Neal. County Commission: David Tolliver, (R), Secretary: Lillian Foti. president; Linda Kay Epling, (R); Byrd White, Treasurer: Beverly Lund. III, (R). Members Terms of Court: First and third Tuesday each District I: Joe Long, Ghent; Justin Arvon, month. Beckley; Beverly Lund, Beckley; Linda County Administrator: Jeffrey B. Raines. Sumner, Beckley. Prosecuting Attorney: Kristen Keller, (D). District II: Stan Ellison, Bradley; Michael W. Assistants: Andrew Dimlich; Tom MacAuley; Tener, Beckley; Kay Tener, Beckley; Barbara E. E. Bibb, III; Pat Lamp; W.F. Richmond, Jr.; Pettry, Whitesville. Tom Truman; John W. Gallaher, Jr. District III: Stan Norman, Beckley; Josh Sheriff:R. Steven Tanner. Conaway, Beaver; Janet Norman, Beckley; Fiduciary Commissioners: John L. Bridi, (D); Lillian Foti, Beckley. E. E. Bibb, III, (D); Alan H. Larrick, (R); Advisory Members: Gillis Cornett; George William F Richmond, (R). Tener; Ed Mullins. County Superintendent of Schools: Charles David Price. Emergency Services Director: John Filinski. County Extension Agent: David Richmond. 4-H Agent: Rhonda Coleman. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Newassa Rhodes. Nutrition Outreach Instructor: Susan Lilly. Board of Health: Dr. John Bailes, chair; Pete Francesa, vice chair; Paul Loflin, D.D.S.; Dr. Angel Rosas; Katy Green. Health Officer: Emma Villanueva, M.D. Sanitarians: Stanley Walls, R.S., administrator; Lisa Myles; Tina Lowery. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Jim Bob Dalton.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Chair: Paul H. Flanagan. Vice Chair: Sherri Hunter. Secretary: Linda Underwood Klopp. Treasurer: Margaret Smith. Members District I: Linda Underwood Klopp; Margaret Smith; Paul H. Flanagan; Jack Tincher. District II: Sherri Hunter; Charlene Pryor; Ed Bibb; Chase Barton. District III: Hazel Burroughs, Wayne Williams; Jerry Zafferatos. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 929

COUNTY OFFICIALS RANDOLPH (Post office address Elkins, Randolph County was formed from the county of unless otherwise indicated) Harrison in 1787 and included all of the present Circuit Court (20th Judicial Circuit) county of Tucker, all of Barbour County east of Judge: the , all of Upshur County David H. Wilmoth, (D). Terms of Circuit Court: east of the Buckhannon River and a considerable Last Monday in portion of Pocahontas and Webster counties. February, June, and October. Circuit Clerk: It lost territory in 1821 when Pocahontas was Phil Riggleman, (D). Court Reporter: formed; again in 1843 when Barbour came into Chris Slayer. Commissioner: existence; in 1851 when it gave up some of its (Vacancy). General Receiver: territory to Upshur; in 1856 when 350 square Davis Trust Company. County Probation Officer: miles were cut off to form Tucker; and another Heidi Flynn. Magistrates: portion was incorporated in Webster County Mike Riggleman; Benjamin Shepler, when it was formed in 1860. Robert Elbon, Jr. Family Court Judge: Michele W. Good. After all of these losses Randolph still is the largest county in the state. It was named for COUNTY OFFICERS Edmund Jennings Randolph, governor of Virginia Assessor: 1786-1788. The first white man who settled in Phyllis Yokum, (D). Board of Education: what is now West Virginia built his home on the Donna Auvil; Lisa Wamsley; headwaters of the Monongahela River. In this Janie Newlon; Harvey Taylor; Bruce Haddix. County Clerk: county occurred the first Indian massacre in the Brenda Wiseman, (D). County Commission: state. From that beginning, the county has been a Joyce Johns, (D); Chris historical center down to the present. See, (D); Michael Taylor, (D). Terms of Court: First and third Thursday of each First 4-H Camp in the world was held in this month. Prosecuting Attorney: county. Kumbrabow State Forest and part of the Michael Parker, (D). Sheriff: Monongahela National Forest are located in this Mark T. Brady. Fiduciary Commissioners: county. Thomas R. Ross, II; Jennifer Morgan. Coroner: Rich Mountain Battlefield is located near Beverly, Roy White. Superintendent of Schools: site of an important battle of the Civil War. Pamela Hewitt. Emergency Services Director: Southeast of Huttonsville, on White Mountain Cindy Hart. County Agricultural Agent: (elevation over 4,000 feet), the federal forces Ronnie Helmondollar. Community Educational Outreach Service maintained the highest fortified camp in the Civil President: War. Sandra Goodwin, Montrose. President, Farm Bureau: Portia Dean. President, Home Demonstration Council: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Mrs. lumber, furniture, coal, clothing, shoes; potatoes, Roy Teets. Board of Health: hay and grain, livestock, dairying. Judy Guye, Chair; Susan Hinzman, Dailey; Gene Smith, Bowden; Randolph County Commission Loy McAtee, Huttonsville; Victor Thompson. Health Officer: 4 Randolph Avenue Mary S. Boyd, M.D. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Elkins, WV, 26241 Raymond Phone: (304) 636-2057 Yeager. Fax: (304) 636-1125 www.randolphcountycommissionwv.org

Municipalities: Beverly, Coalton, Elkins, Harman, Huttonsville, Mill Creek, Montrose. County Seat: Elkins. Magisterial Districts (3): Cheat, Elkins, Tygart. Voting Precincts: 27. Area: 1,046.34 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 29,405. 930 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RITCHIE The government offices for Ritchie County are Officers located in Harrisville. The first settler in the Chair: Julia R. Stevenson. vicinity of Harrisville was Lawrence Maley, who Vice Chair: Frank P. Bush, Jr. arrived there in 1801. The area was originally Secretary: Carol Cain-Bush. known then as “Maley’s Settlement.” The town Treasurer: Robert “Bob” Elbon, Sr. was platted in 1822 and chartered by the State Parliamentarian: Stanley “Stan” A. Gould. of Virginia as Harrisville and named for Thomas Members Harris. The first post office was established on Elkins District: Carol Cain-Bush; Julia R. July 25, 1833, and was called Solus because a Stevenson; Frank P. Bush, Jr.; Dave Rao. Harrisville post office already existed in the state Cheat District: Marilyn Kesling; Debra L. of Virginia. The name was changed June l, 1847, Bohon Hoover; Stanley “Stan” A. Gould; David to Ritchie Court House, Virginia. It was changed L. Kesling. again February 14, 1870 to Harrisville, West Tygart District: Robert “Bob” Elbon; Gerald Virginia. Then on May 11, 1874 it was changed “Jerry” Simmons; (Vacancies). back to Ritchie Court House. The final change was made on August 19, 1895 to Harrisville, in honor of General Thomas M. Harris. General REPUBLICAN COUNTY Harris was the nephew of Thomas Harris, for EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE whom the town was originally named. General Officers Harris was also one of the commissioners in the Chair: Carolyn Jackson. military trial of those accused of plotting the Vice Chair: Steven Cook. assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Secretary: Billie Sipes. Treasurer: Synthia Phares. Ritchie County was formed in 1843 from parts of Members Wood, Harrison, and Lewis counties. When it was Tygart District: Carolyn Jackson; Mary C. Boltz; formed, it also included land that is now included (Vacancies). in Doddridge and Pleasants counties. In the 1860s Elkins District: Judy Guye-Swanson; Barbara a small portion of what was Gilmer County was Tyre; Steven Cook; Phillips B. Kolsun. added to Ritchie County. Cheat District: Billie Sipes; John Hempel; (Vacancies). Ritchie County was named in honor of Thomas At Large Members: Synthia Phares; Deborah Ritchie, a distinguished early American journalist. Cook; Rhett Dusenbury. Ritchie was the founder and editor of the Richmond Enquirer in 1804. The paper, under his leadership, became one of the leading newspapers in the country. As editor of the newspaper he championed the cause for the western counties of Virginia. Ritchie’s uncle was Judge Spencer Roane, whom Roane County was named after.

There are numerous attractions in the county, including North Bend State Park and Lake and North Bend Rail Trail. This trail has numerous bridges and tunnels and is part of the 5,5OO- mile coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail. Also, W.Va. Route 47 is designated as part of a National Scenic Byway as it closely follows the original route of the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike.

Leading industries and chief agricultural products include: petroleum, natural gas, timber, window manufacturing, automobile carpet manufacturing, aluminum truck bed manufacturing, glass and glassware; livestock, hay and grain. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 931

Ritchie County Commission County Superintendent of Schools: Edward 115 E Main Street Toman. Harrisville, WV, 26362 County Extension Agent: Stephanie Deem. Phone: (304) 643-2164 President, Farm Bureau: Ted R ichards. Fax: (304) 643-2906 Community Educational Outreach Service www.ritchiecounty.wv.gov President: Deena Richards, Pullman. Executive Director, Health Department: Dick Municipalities: Auburn, Cairo, Ellenboro, Wittberg. Harrisville, Pennsboro, Pullman. Board of Health: Charlene Sweeney; Samuel C. County Seat: Harrisville. Rogers. Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Northeast, Road Maintenance Superintendent: Mike Southwest. Dailey. Voting Precincts: 15. Area: 455.27 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 10,449. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers COUNTY OFFICIALS Chair: Myron Bailey, Smithville. (Post office address Harrisville, Members unless otherwise indicated) Northeast District: Dale Seese, Ellenboro. Circuit Court (3rd Judicial Circuit) Southwest District: Ralph McCullough, Judge: Timothy L. Sweeney, (D), St. Marys. Smithville. Terms of Circuit Court: Fourth Monday in Central District: Ada Riggs, Pullman. January, first Monday in June, and first Monday in October. Circuit Clerk: Rose Ellen Cox, (R), Pennsboro. Court Reporter: Debra Windom, REPUBLICAN COUNTY Middlebourne. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE General Receiver: Rose Ellen Cox. Officers Probation Officer: Tina Paczewski. Chair: Lewis Phillip Davis. Juvenile Probation Officer: Danielle Stanley. Treasurer: Linda B. Maze. Magistrates: David Wayne Haugh, Cairo; Secretary: Alice Ann Hoff. Teresa Harper, Ellenboro. Members Family Court Judge: Larry S. Whited, Northeast District: Lewis P. Davis, Pennsboro; Grantsville. Norma J. Davis, Pennsboro; Diane Hacker- McCullough, Pennsboro; Donnie K. Jones, Pennsboro. COUNTY OFFICERS Southwest District: Alice Ann Hoff, Cairo; Assessor: Arlene Mossor, (R). Harvey H. Williamson, Smithville; Connie L. Board of Education: Carolyn Bowie, president, Frederick, Smithville; Ward Robertson, Cairo. Cairo; Brian Scott Walton, Ellenboro; Andrew Central District: Linda B. Maze; Leesa Cowan, Harrisville; Ed Cokeley, Harrisville; Snodgrass; Wilson Watson; David M. Scott, Melanie Vogt-McCloy, Pennsboro. Harrisville. County Clerk: Tracie D. McDonald, (R). County Commission: Samuel C. Rogers, President, Pennsboro; Stephen C. Worden, Cairo; Floyd M. Hodge, Sr., Harrisville. Terms of Commission: Second Thursday of each month. Prosecuting Attorney: Steven Jones, (R). Sheriff:Bryan Backus, (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: Rodney C. Windom; Ira M. Haught. Medical Examiners: Dr. James LeVos; John M. Bever, Jr., coroner; Thomas A. McCullough, deputy coroner. 932 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS ROANE Assessor: Created in 1856 from parts of Kanawha, Jackson Emily C. Westfall, (R). Board of Education: and Gilmer counties and named in honor of Eileen Richardson; Judge Spencer Roane, a distinguished judge of Jeff Mace; Greg Boggs; Joseph Painter; Paul the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, whose Cummings. County Clerk: wife, Anne, was the daughter of . Charles B. White, Jr., (D). County Commission: Melissa O’Brien, (R), Leading industries and chief agricultural products: president; Merlin Shamblin, (R); Gary A. petroleum, natural gas, lumber and its products; Mace, (D). Terms of Court: hay and grain, livestock, dairying, poultry. Second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Roane County Commission Prosecuting Attorney: Josh Downey, (R). Sheriff: 200 Main Street L. Todd Cole, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: Spencer, WV, 25276 Orton Jones, (R); Phone: (304) 927-0078 Richard D. Frum, (N); Drew Patton, (D). Coroner: Fax: (304) 927-0079 (Vacancy). County Superintendent of Schools: www.roanewv.com Jerry Garner. Emergency Services Director: Municipalities: Reedy, Spencer. Melissa Gilbert. Extension Agent: County Seat: Spencer. Brandy Brabham. Health Officer: Magisterial Districts (3): District I, District II, David Avery, M.D. Board of Health: District III. Jacob Fetty; Candace Westfall. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Voting Precincts: 20. Gary Alvis. Area: 486.20 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 14,926. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COUNTY OFFICIALS Officers Chair: (Post office address Spencer, Mark Eastman. Vice Chair: unless otherwise indicated) (Vacancy). Circuit Court (5th Judicial Circuit) Secretary: (Vacancy). Treasurer: Judges: David W. Nibert, (D), Point Pleasant; (Vacancy). Members Thomas C. Evans, III, (R), Ripley. District-I: Terms of Circuit Court: Fourth Tuesday in (Vacancy). District-II: January, May, and September. Chuck Wyrostok; Robert “Robin” Circuit Clerk: Andrea Stockner, (R). Wilson, Jr. District-III: Court Reporters: John Berkhouse; Sandra James L. “Jim” Crowder; Mark Hickman. Eastman. General Receiver: Circuit Clerk. Drug Court Officer: Mary Hammack. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Adult/Juvenile Probation Officer: Kimberly EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mertz; J.D. Smith. Officers Magistrates: Ron White, (D); Jason D. Bennett, Chair: (R). Charles E. McCarty. Vice Chair: Family Court Judge: Larry S. Whited, (R). (Vacancy). Secretary: (Vacancy). Treasurer: (Vacancy). Members District-I: Marge Marshall; William F. Gross; Tom Dale. District-II: Emmett C. Snyder, Jr. District-III: Linda Drennen. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 933

Terms of Court: Second Monday of month. SUMMERS Prosecuting Attorney: Formed in 1871 from parts of Monroe, Mercer, Amy L. Mann, (D). Sheriff: Greenbrier, and Fayette counties and named in Garry S. Wheeler, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: honor of George W. Summers, a prominent jurist E. Kent Hellems, of Kanawha County. (D); David L. Ziegler, (D). County Superintendent of Schools: Vicki Bluestone Lake (1,000 acres), Bluestone State Park, Hinerman. President, Farm Bureau: and Pipestem State Park are located in this county. Wallace McGraw. Community Educational Outreach Service Leading industries and chief agricultural products: President: lumber; livestock, hay and grain. Erma Meadows. Board of Health: Lee Roy Farley, Pipestem; Summers County Commission Bertie Lou Lively, Green Sulphur Springs; 120 Ballengee Street, PO Box 97 Donald L. Hannah, Nimitz; Nannie K. Kirk; Hinton, WV, 25951 Jack David Woodrum. Board of Health Administration: Phone: (304) 445-7100 Sandra Ball, R.N. Health Officer: Fax: (304) 466-7146 Dr. Steven Richman Sanitarian: www.summerscountywv.org Chad Meador. Road Maintenance Superintendent: James G. Municipalities: Hinton. Hardy, II. Coordinator for Governor’s WV Watch County Seat: Hinton. Program: Magisterial Districts (3): Bluestone River, New Chad Meador. WVU Extension Agent and 4-C Economic River, Greenbrier River. Development Coordinator: Voting Precincts: 15. Rick Moorefield. WVU Extension Agent: Area: 367.76 square miles. Lesley Woodrum. Population (2010 Census): 13,927. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIALS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Hinton, Officers Chair: unless otherwise indicated) Mary Lou Haley. Circuit Court (31st Judicial Circuit) Vice Chair: Martha Maddy. Secretary: Judge: Robert A. Irons, (D), Pickaway. Jon Averill. Treasurer: Terms of Circuit Court: First Tuesday in Debi McNeer. Members March, third Tuesday in July and November. Bluestone River District: Circuit Clerk: Linda S. Brumit, (D). Phillip M. Maddy; Court Reporter: Ann Owens. Martha Maddy; Betty Giles; Jim Miller. Greenbrier River District: General Receiver: Sandra Cozort. Cleo P. Mathews; Adult/Juvenile Probation Officer: Matthew S. Debi McNeer; Chris Chanlett; Jack Ashley. New River District: McMillion. Abby Averill; Jon Averill; Chief Adult/Juvenile Probation Officer: Karen Childs. Charles S. Oxley, Jr.; Lila Oxley. Magistrates: J. William Jeffries, Jr.; Jack K. Hellems. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Family Court Judges: K. Bruce Lazenby, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Beckley; H. Suzanne McGraw, Beckley; Officers Louise G. Staton, Mullens. Chair: Joe Garcia. First Vice Chair: Jeff Lyon. COUNTY OFFICERS Secretary: Brenda Garcia. Treasurer: Assessor: Greg Vandall, (D). Herb Miller. Attorney: Board of Education: Rebecca Sue Angell, Richard Gunnoe. Members president; David Ballard; Deborah Clark; Bluestone River District: James Withrow; Jean Gore. Patty Lyon; Brenda County Clerk: Mary E. Merritt, (D). Garcia; Joe Garcia; Jeff Lyon. Greenbrier River District: County Commission: Lloyd W. “Bill” Lightner, Martha B. Briers; (D), president; Jack David Woodrum (R); Thomas F. Briers; John Vuolo; Hailey Ratliff. New River District: Tony Williams, (D). John Parkin; Roy Cooper; Connie Parkin; Karen Johnson. 934 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS TAYLOR Assessor: Created in 1844 from parts of Harrison, Barbour Judith L. Collett (D). Board of Education: and Marion counties and named for Senator John Judy Barney; Alan Taylor (1750-1824), distinguished soldier and DePiano; Nancy A Ludwick; Melissa D. statesman of Carolina County, Virginia. Knotts; Dick Teagarden. County Clerk: Georgianna Thompson (R). County Commission: The Mother’s Day Shrine is located in Grafton. Tony J. Veltri, (R); David Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day, was born at Efaw, (D); Orville Wright. Terms of Court: Webster, a small community just outside Grafton. First and third Tuesday of the month. Prosecuting Attorney: Tygart Valley River flood control dam, built by the John L. Bord (R). Sheriff: government at a cost of $18.3 million, is located Terring Skinner, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: near Grafton. Shawn Nines, (R); Robert C. Gorey, Jr., (D). Medical Examiner: The Pruntytown Correctional Center, formerly the Dr. Christopher Villaraza, II. Coroner: West Virginia Industrial School for Boys, located (Vacancy). County Superintendent of Schools: at Pruntytown (unincorporated), was established Charles R. in 1801 under the name of Williamsport, which Maynard. Emergency Services Director: was the original county seat. Mike Kochka. County Extension Agent: Jennifer Shirey. President, Farm Bureau: The only national cemetery in West Virginia is Gary Bolyard. Community Educational Outreach Service located in Taylor County. President: Virginia Ellis. Board of Health: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: John M. Keener, chair; Wilda Rex-Hide, Inc., Quality Machine Co., Dyna-Tech Swisher; Richard Warne; Roger LeMasters. Health Officer: Adhesives, Inc. Dr. Peter Wentzel. Sanitarian: Jacob LeMasters. Taylor County Commission Road Maintenance Superintendent: John Corio. 214 W Main Street Grafton, WV, 26354 DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Phone: (304) 265-1401 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Fax: (304) 265-5787 www.taylorcounty.wv.gov Officers Chair: Diane Parker. Secretary: Municipalities: Flemington, Grafton. Denise Binion. Treasurer: County Seat: Grafton. Freda Gillespie. Members Magisterial Districts (3): Eastern, Tygart, Western District: Western. Denise Binion; Pat Tucker; Voting Precincts: 19. Sherri Heavener. Tygart District: Area: 177.19 square miles. Freda Gillespie; Diane C. Population (2010 Census): 16,895. Parker; Bill Collett; Charlie Marshall. Eastern District: Calla Dell Frederick; Doug Latta; Rose Mary Knight. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address Grafton, REPUBLICAN COUNTY unless otherwise indicated) Circuit Court (19th Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Judge: Alan D. Moats, (D), Thornton. Chair: Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Jay Taylor. Vice Chair: January, April, and September. Tom Bartlett. Members Circuit Clerk: Vonda M. Reneman, (D). Western District: Court Reporter: Debbie Arthur. Barbara Ratka. Tygart District: Probation Officers: Bonnie Viani; Heather Pride. Tom Bartlett; Barbara Bartlett; Magistrates: Robert Mollohan, (D); Rick Reese (D). Charles Morgan; JoAnn Morgan. Eastern District: Family Court Judge: Beth Longo, Philippi. Berlan Bryan; Marj Bryan; (Vacancies). SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 935

COUNTY OFFICERS TUCKER Assessor: Formed in 1856 from Randolph County and Paul Burns, (D). Board of Education: named for Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Marvin E. Parsons; Kevin an eminent jurist and statesman of White; Timothy Turner; Janet Preston; Judy Virginia. Fairbanks. County Clerk: Sherry Simmons, (R). County Commission: Blackwater Falls State Park, Canaan Valley State Lowell Moore, (R); Park, and part of Monongahela National Forest Diane Hinkle, (D); Patrick Darlington, (R). Terms of Court: are located in this county. Second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Prosecuting Attorney: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Ray LaMora, (R). Sheriff: Kingsford Charcoal, Hinchcliff Lumber Co., Brian Wilfong, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: coal, lumber; potatoes, maple sugar, buckwheat, Janet Preston, (D); livestock. Pat A. Nichols, (D). Coroner: Heather Davis. Tucker County Commission County Superintendent of Schools: Edward 211 First Street Campbell. WVU Extension Agent: Parsons, WV, 26287 Jesica Streets, agent in Phone: (304) 478-2866 training. President, Farm Bureau: Fax: (304) 478-2446 Beverly Rosier. Community Educational Outreach Service www.tuckercountycommission.com President: Evelyn Moore, St. George. Health Officer: Municipalities: Davis, Hambleton, Hendricks, James Snyder. Chief Sanitarian: Parsons, Thomas. James Snyder. Road Maintenance Superintendent: County Seat: Parsons. Barry Magisterial Districts (3): Blackwater, Cheat River, Gardner. Shavers Fork. Voting Precincts: 11. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Area: 421.67 square miles. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Population (2010 Census): 7,141. Officers Chair: John W. Cooper. COUNTY OFFICIALS Secretary: Michael McClintock. Treasurer: (Post office address Parsons, Elaine George. unless otherwise indicated) Members Circuit Court (21st Judicial Circuit) Cheat River District: Boyd Myers. (Vacancy) Shavers Fork District: Judges: Philip B. Jordan, Jr., (D), chief judge, (Vacancy). Blackwater District: Keyser; Lynn A. Nelson, (R), Keyser. John W. Cooper; Thisbe Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in Cooper; Richard W. Spence; Linda M. February; first Tuesday in June and October. Spence; Michael McClintock; Elaine George. Circuit Clerk: Donna Jean Bava, (D). Court Reporters: Patsy McDonald; Maria Clark. REPUBLICAN COUNTY General Receiver: Tom Preston. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Adult Probation Officer: Jerome V. DiBacco, Jr. Officers Juvenile Probation Officer: Thomas Felton. Chair: Magistrates: Riley H. Barb, (D); William Bruce Kolsun. Secretary: “Mont” Miller, (D). Romaine Arnold. Treasurer: Family Court Judge: Michelle W. Good, Elkins. Fran Shupp. Members Cheat River District: Bruce Kolsun, Parsons. (Vacancy) Shavers Fork District: Doris T. Bonner, Kerens; Debbie Stevens. (Vacancy) Blackwater District: Romaine Arnold, Davis; Fran Shupp, Canaan; Janet Canon, Thomas; Calvin Dearborn, Canaan. 936 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS TYLER Assessor: Created from Ohio County in 1814 and named in Jackson L. Hayes, (R). Board of Education: honor of , eighth governor of Virginia Linda L. Hoover, Alma; and father of John Tyler, tenth president of the David “PJ” Wells, Sistersville; Bonnie United States. Henthorn, Middlebourne; Scott Strode, Middlebourne; Jimmy Wyatt, Middlebourne. County Clerk: The world’s greatest gas well, “Big Moses,” Teresea R. Hamilton, (R), Shirley. County Commission: producing 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day, Charles A. Smith, (R); was drilled in this county in 1894. John F. Stender, (R); Eric H. Vincent, (R). Terms of Court: Second and fourth Tuesday of Leading businesses, industries, and chief each month. Prosecuting Attorney: agricultural products: glass and glassware; D. Luke Furbee, (R). Sheriff: petroleum, natural gas, chemicals; marbles; Earl P. Kendle, Jr., (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: service industries; artisan crafters; production of Phillip J. Bowser, dairy, poultry, beef, pork; alpacas; Tyler County New Martinsville; F. M. Dean Rohrig; Speedway; Oil and Gas Festival. Frederick Wilcox, New Martinsville. County Superintendent of Schools: Robin Tyler County Commission Daquilante. Emergency Services Director: PO Box 66 Thomas Cooper, Middlebourne, WV, 26149 Sistersville. President, Farm Bureau: Phone: (304) 758-2102 David Ash, Sistersville. Board of Health: Fax: (304) 758-2126 Brent Gamble, New www.tylercountywv.com Martinsville; John Eckels, Sistersville; Larry Lemon, New Martinsville; Linda Ritz, New Municipalities: Friendly, Middlebourne, *Paden Martinsville; Eric Peters, Friendly. Health Officer: City, Sistersville. David F. Hess, M.D., Glendale Sanitarian: County Seat: Middlebourne. Mark Hawkins, McMechen. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Magisterial Districts (4): Central, North, South, Douglas R. West. Hayes. Voting Precincts: 12. Area: 260.12 square miles. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Population (2010 Census): 9,208. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE *Also in Wetzel County. Officers Chair: Stephen D. Seago. Secretary/Treasurer: Barbara Huffman, Paden City. COUNTY OFFICIALS Members South District: (Post office address Middlebourne, George L. Lemasters, Alma; unless otherwise indicated) Murldene Lemasters, Alma. Circuit Court (2nd Judicial Circuit) Central District: James L. Menges; Stephen Seago. West District: Judges: David W. Hummel, Jr., (D) (No Members). North District: Moundsville; Jeffrey D. Cramer, Moundsville. Barbara J. Smith, Paden City. Terms of Court: Second Tuesday in February, June, and October. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Circuit Clerk: Candy Warner, (R), Alma. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Court Reporters: Shannon Blankenship; Holly Officers Glover Kocher. Chair: Probation Officer: John T. Lantz, New Rebecca Wells, Friendly. Vice Chair: Martinsville. Michael V. Smith, Middlebourne. Secretary: Magistrates: John E. Roberts, (D), Kidwell; Regina Pratt, Alma. Treasurer: Michael Griffin, (R), Alma. Patricia A. Boggs, Middlebourne. Members Family Court Judge: Robert C. Hicks, (D), South District: Sistersville. Regina Pratt, Alma. Central District: Rebecca Wells, Friendly. West District: Janet L. Hadley, Sistersville; Craig Pritchett, Sistersville. North District: Patricia A. Boggs; Michael Smith. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 937

Terms of Court: Each Thursday. UPSHUR Prosecuting Attorney: Formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour and David E. Godwin, (R). Sheriff: Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker David H. Coffman, (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: Upshur, distinguished statesman and jurist of Terry D. Reed, (R); Virginia. Daya M. Wright, (D) Medical Examiner: Shane Brown – Barbour West Virginia Wildlife Center is located near County County Superintendent of Schools: French Creek (unincorporated). Roy Wager. County Extension Agents, 4-H: Craig Presar; Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Natasha Harris. President, Farm Bureau: lumber, coal, natural gas; clothing; livestock; Rex Reeder. Upshur County CEOS: dairying, strawberries, corn. Lucy Mullins, President; Donna Bennett, Vice President; Upshur County Commission Cathy DeBarr, Secretary; Betty Hinkle, 38 W Main Street Treasurer. Board of Health: Buckhannon, WV, 26201 Dale Hawkins, (D); Amy Phone: (304) 472-0535 Queen, (D); Larry Carpenter; Michael Fax: (304) 472-2399 Livesay; Charliena Eubank. Health Officer: www.upshurcounty.org Joseph Reed, (part-time). Chief Sanitarian: Josh Marsh. County Health Nurses: Municipality: Buckhannon. Susan Evans; Sue County Seat: Buckhannon. McKisic. Magisterial Districts (3): First, Second, Third. Voting Precincts: 29. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Area: 354.86 square miles. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Population (2010 Census): 24,254. Officers Chair: Donna Matthews. COUNTY OFFICIALS Vice Chair: Larry Alkire. Treasurer: (Post office address Buckhannon, Andrea Hays. Secretary: unless otherwise indicated) Mark Hays. Circuit Court (26th Judicial Circuit) Members First District: Judge: Jacob E. Reger, (R). Mark Hays; Andrea Hays; Sandra Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Dean; Robert Andrick. Second District: January, May, and September. Donna Matthews; Karen Circuit Clerk: Brian P. Gaudet, (R). Kesling. Third District: Court Reporter: Tiffany Tate. Charlotte Henline; Larry Alkire; General Receiver: Steven Nanners. Linda Alkire; Dale Burgess. Adult Probation Officers: Jason Kelley; John Meadows; Micah Renee’ Harris. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Juvenile Probation Officers: Jason Kelley; John EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Meadows; Micah Renee’Harris. Officers Magistrates: Juanita Adams, (R); J. Michael Chair: Coffman, (R). Patricia L. Adams. Vice Chair: Family Court Judge: Robert Reed Sowa, LeVera Gillum. Secretary: Frametown. Heather L. Queen. Treasurer: Linda S. DeBarr. Members COUNTY OFFICERS First District: Linda DeBarr; Heather Lee Assessor: Donald W. Rice, (R). Adams; William Sembello; Harold Board of Education: Alan Suder; Carl Martin; Cunningham. Second District: Teresa Bellamy; Greenbrier Almond; Tammy LeVera Gillum; Keith Gillum; Samples. Amy J. Karnes; Robert Karnes. Third District: County Clerk: Debbie Thacker Wilfong, (R). Patricia L. Adams; Charlotte A. County Commission: J. C. Raffety, (R); Troy A. Lewis; Kenneth Himes; Creed Pletcher, Jr. Brady (R); Terry Cutright, (R). 938 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS WAYNE Assessor: Formed from Cabell County in 1842 and Eric L. Hodges, (D). Board of Education: named in honor of General Anthony Wayne of Katie Carey, Revolutionary War fame. Westmoreland, President; Joann Hurley, Westmoreland, President; Rob Pennington, Cabwaylingo State Forest, , Fort Gay; Darik Adkins, Shoals; Vicky Boyd, and Beech Fork Lake are located Wayne. County Commission: in this county. Robert E. Pasley, (D), President; Charles Sammons, (D), Crum; Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Kenneth R. Adkins, (D), Huntington. Interim County Clerk: coal, natural gas, lumber, cement and concrete; Joan Potter (D). Terms of Court: chemical and petroleum refining, manufacturing, Each Monday, except first distribution/intermodal facility; hay, grain, Thursday each month. Prosecuting Attorney: tobacco, livestock, dairying, poultry, fruit, Thomas Plymale, (D), vegetables, sorghum. Huntington. Sheriff:Greg Farley, (D), Lavalette. Wayne County Commission Surveyor: Matt Strogen. Fiduciary Commissioners: PO Box 248 Paul J. Prunty, Wayne, WV, 25570 Huntington; Randall Wall, Huntington. County Superintendent of Schools: Phone: (304) 272-6350 Gary Adkins. Assistant Superintendents: Fax: (304) 272-6348 John Michael www.waynecountywv.org Rutherford; Don Davis; Carol Lynn Hart; Clinton Burch. Treasurer: Municipalities: Ceredo, Fort Gay, *Huntington, Mike Rutherford. Emergency Services Director: Kenova, Wayne. William Willis. Community Educational Outreach Service County Seat: Wayne. President: Magisterial Districts (5): Butler, Ceredo, Audrey Willis. Extension Agent, 4-H: Stonewall, Union, Westmoreland. Julie Tritz. Extension Agent, Agriculture and Economic Voting Precincts: 36. Development: Area: 517.88 square miles. Carl Marcum. Extension Agent, Home Economics: Population (2010 Census): 42,481. Julie Tritz. Board of Health: Roy L. Matthews, Dunlow, *Also in Cabell County. chair; Fred Tanner, Huntington; Dr. Charles Sammons, Crum; Max Parks, Huntington; Mike Rutherford, Wayne. COUNTY OFFICIALS Health Officer: Kevin McCann, M.D. Administrator: (Post office address Wayne, Mickey Plymale, Huntington. Sanitarians: unless otherwise indicated) David Farley; Melissa Spence. Circuit Court (24th Judicial Circuit) Road Maintenance Superintendent: Randy Judge: Darrell Pratt, (D), Prichard; James H. Smith, Radnor. Young, Jr., (D), Ceredo. Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in March, July, and November. Circuit Clerk: Milton J. Ferguson, II, (D). Court Reporters: Amanda Hunter; JoAnn Wilson. Commissioner in Chancery: Jason Fry. General Receiver: Jason Fry. Magistrates: David Ferguson, (D), Genoa; Randy Wiles, (D), Huntington. Family Court Judge: Stephen Lewis, (D), Huntington. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 939

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WEBSTER The last county in West Virginia to be created Officers before the separation from Virginia. Created Chair: Dr. Rodney C. Thompson, Wayne. in 1860 from Nicholas, Braxton and Randolph First Vice Chair: Tammy Pritt, Ceredo. counties and named in honor of Daniel Webster, Second Vice Chair: Tim Bias, Kenova. New England orator and statesman. Third Vice Chair: Donna J. May, Prichard. Associate Chair: Wilts Salmons, Fort Gay. Holly River State Park and part of Monongahela Treasurer: Eldon Perry, East Lynn. National Forest are located in this county. Secretary: Barbara Sutherland, Dunlow. Associate Secretary: (Vacancy). Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Members lumber, coal; potatoes, buckwheat, oats, livestock, Butler District: James Frazier, Prichard; Donna poultry, honey. May, Prichard. Ceredo District: Tim Bias, Kenovo; Tammy Webster County Commission Pritt, Ceredo. 2 Court Square Stonewall District: Hobert Crum, Dunlow; Webster Springs, WV, 26288 Mary Marcum, Crum. Phone: (304) 847-5780 Union District: Kent Mills, Wayne; Tammy Fax: (304) 847-7755 Smith, Wayne. www.webstercounty.wv.gov Westmoreland District: Frank Dorsey, Huntington; Betty J. Ronk Dixon, Municipalities: Camden on Gauley, Cowen, Huntington. Webster Springs. County Seat: Webster Springs. Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Northern, REPUBLICAN COUNTY Southern. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Voting Precincts: 14. Officers Area: 558.60 square miles. Chair: Mark R. Maynard. Population (2010 Census): 9,154. Vice Chair: (Vacancy). Treasurer: Jeff Maynard. Secretary: Jewell G. Maynard. COUNTY OFFICIALS Parliamentarian: Dallas Thacker. (Post office address Webster Springs, Members unless otherwise indicated) Butler District: (Vacancies). Circuit Court (14th Judicial Circuit) Ceredo District: Millard F. Donnelly, Kenova; Judges: Jack Alsop, (D); Richard A. Facemire, Pauline Donnelly, Kenova. (D), Sutton. Stonewall District: Bobby Allen, Crum; Margie Terms of Circuit Court: Second Monday in Allen, Crum. January and first Monday in May and Union District: (Vacancy); Debbie Capron, September. Lavalette. Circuit Clerk: Jeanie D. Moore, (D). Westmoreland District: Sandra Pinson, Court Reporter: Lauren Morrison, Jackson. Huntington; Jeff Maynard, Huntington. Commissioner in Chancery: (Vacancy). Probation Officer: Bradley Bonnett. Magistrates: John Stone, (D); Richard Robertson, (D). Family Court Judge: Jeffrey Hall, (D), Diana. 940 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS Assessor: WETZEL Max W. Cochran, (D). Created in 1846 from Tyler County and named Board of Education: Joyce Markle; Lisa for Lewis Wetzel, famous frontier character and Clutter; Susan Chericalo; Heather Davis; Indian fighter. Harold Carpenter. County Clerk: Eva R. Green, (D). Leading industries and chief agricultural products: County Commission: Daniel B. Dotson, III, petroleum, natural gas, glass, glassware, marbles, (D); Jerry F. Hamrick, (D); Anna Carpenter, sand, gravel, cathedral glass; livestock, vegetables, (D). fruit. Terms of Court: First Wednesday of each month. Wetzel County Commission Prosecuting Attorney: Dwayne C. PO Box 156 Vandevender, (D). New Martinsville, WV, 26155 Sheriff: David G. Bender, (D). Phone: (304) 455-8217 Surveyor: (Vacancy). Fax: (304) 455-5256 Fiduciary Commissioner: Elaine E. Green, (D). www.wetzelcounty.wv.gov County Superintendent of Schools: Scott Cochran. Municipalities: Hundred, New Martinsville, Emergency Services Director: Richard Rose, *Paden City, Pine Grove, Smithfield. (D). County Seat: New Martinsville. County Agricultural Agent: Michael Hall, (D). Magisterial Districts (3): One, Two, Three. President, Farm Bureau: (Vacancy). Voting Precincts: 22. Community Educational Outreach Service Area: 360.47 square miles. President: (Vacancy). Population (2010 Census): 16,583. Board of Health: Karen Dotson; John W. Perrine; Heather Dennison; Alberta Hickman. *Also in Tyler County. Health Officer: Dr. Luke McElwain. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Charles Smith, (D), Cowen. COUNTY OFFICIALS (Post office address New Martinsville, unless otherwise indicated) DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Circuit Court (2nd Judicial Circuit) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judges: David W. Hummel, Jr., (D), Chief Officers Judge, Moundsville; (Vacancy). Chair: Dana L. Lynch. Terms of Circuit Court: Second Tuesday in Vice Chair: Tabitha Williams. January, May, and September. Treasurer: Daniel A. Lehman. Circuit Clerk: Sharon M. Dulaney, (D). Members Court Reporters: Shannon Blankenship; Holly Northern District: Lloyd Lehman; Daniel A. Glover Kocher. Lehman; Charlotte Helmick; Barbara Williams. General Receiver: Brenda Botizan, (D). Central District: Sue Talbott; Nancy Lynch; Probation Officers: Bryan Hostutler; John Larry Lynch; Randall Rader. Lantz. Southern District: Fred Hollandsworth; Charles Mental Hygiene Commissioner: Philip J. Schartiger; Imogene Schartiger; Tabitha Bowser. Williams. Magistrates: Judy Goontz, (D); Thomas J. Shepherd, (D). Family Court Judge: Robert C. Hicks, REPUBLICAN COUNTY Sistersville. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Chair: Bill Snyder. Members Northern District: Robert Waybright. Central District: (Vacancies). Southern District: Charlene Grounds. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 941

COUNTY OFFICERS REPUBLICAN COUNTY Assessor: Scott Lemley, (D). EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Board of Education: Michael Blair; Robert Officers Patterson; Carolyn Lemasters Gatian; Linda Chair: Herbert Jung. Kirk; Joshua Balcerak. Vice Chair: Mike Clark. County Clerk: Carol S. Haught, (D). Secretary: Barbara Brasher. County Commission: Robert L. Gorby, Treasurer: Mary Jung. president; Lawrence P. Lemon; vice president; Members Donald E. Mason, commissioner. District 1: Barbara Brasher; Janet Terms of Commission: First Tuesday in Higginbotham. January; first Tuesday in April; third Tuesday District 2: Eloise Hayes; Brenda Napier; Steve in July; and first Tuesday in October, (Meets Napier. each Tuesday). District 3: Barbara Nolan; Mary Jung; Mike Prosecuting Attorney: Timothy E. Haught, (D). Clark; Fay Kocher; Carol Knapp; (Vacancy). Sheriff:Joh E. Brookover, (D). Surveyor: Henry M. Parsons, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: Philip J. Bowser; Frederick M. Dean Rohrig; Frederick E. Wilcox. County Superintendent of Schools: Leatha G. Williams. County Extension Agent: Mollie Toppe. President, Farm Bureau: Robert Yeager, Pine Grove. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Pat Spangler, Hundred. Board of Health (Wetzel-Tyler): Brent Gamble, chair; Larry Lemon, co-chair; John Eckles; Linda Ritz; Eric Peters. Health Officer: Dr. David Hess, M.D. Wetzel/Tyler Health Nurse: Karen Cain, registered nurse/administrator. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Randy Rush.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Chair: Greg Morris. Vice Chair: Ralph Strippel. Secretary: Kimberly Frum. Treasurer: Jack Haught. Assistant Secretary/Treasurer: (Vacancy). Members District 1: Jack Haught; Mike Mellott; Barbara King. District 2: Kimberly Frum; Greg Morris; Ralph Phillips; Edna Travis. District 3: Nelda Kocher Glover; Deanna McConaughey; Ralph Strippel; Steve Pallisco. 942 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

COUNTY OFFICERS WIRT Assessor: Formed in 1848 from Wood and Jackson counties Deborah A. Hennen, (D). Board of Education: and named for William Wirt of Maryland, who Edward Powell; Mark gained fame as an author, orator and lawyer in his Lowe; John Nemeth; Chuck Mills; Carl adopted state of Virginia. Brainard. County Clerk: Suellen Calebaugh, (D). County Commission: Palestine Bass Hatchery is located in this county. Robert Gunnoe; Robert Leading industries and chief agricultural products: W. Lowe, Jr; Charles Murray. Terms of Court: lumber, petroleum; hay and grain, livestock, First and third Tuesday of each poultry, dairying. month. Prosecuting Attorney: Leslie L. Maze, (D). Wirt County Commission Sheriff:Delmas Keith Wilson, Jr., (R). Fiduciary Commissioner: PO Box 53 Leslie L. Maze. Coroner: Elizabeth, WV, 26143 Ruth Anne Full. County Superintendent of Schools: Phone: (304) 275-4271 MaryJane Fax: (304) 275-3418 Pope-Albin. Emergency Services Director: www.wirtcounty.wv.gov Denzil Lynch. President, Farm Bureau: Alvin Engelke, (R). Community Educational Outreach Service Municipality: Elizabeth. President: County Seat: Elizabeth. Roxie Holbert. Board of Health: Magisterial Districts (3): Central, Northeast, (Vacancy). Health Officer: Southwest. Dr. David Avery. Health Nurse: Voting Precincts: 9. Devena Moore. Acting Road Maintenance Superintendent: Area: 234.41 square miles. Population (2010 Census): 5,717. Jason Nichols.

COUNTY OFFICIALS DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Post office address Elizabeth, unless otherwise indicated) Officers Circuit Court (4th Judicial Circuit) Chair: Jerry Brookover. Secretary: Judges: J. D. Beane, (D), Chief judge, Linda Sams. Treasurer: Parkersburg; Robert A. Waters, (R), Debbie Hennen. Members Parkersburg; Jeffrey B. Reed, (R), Parkersburg. Central District: Terms of Circuit Court: Last Monday in Jerry Brookover; Debbie March, June, and September. Hennen, Linda Sams. Southwest District: Circuit Clerk: Carol Frame, (R). Suellen Calebaugh. Northeast District: Court Reporter: Lynde Baker. Mary Lou Sheppard. Juvenile Probation Officers: Larry Johnson, chief; Jane Barnes; Jessica Trippett; Dana REPUBLICAN COUNTY Stearman; Dallas Phelps; Tom Rutherford. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Adult Probation Officers: Jeff Nuckols, chief; Officers Michelle Buckley; Sherry Hall; Jason Hayner; Chair: Joe Powell. Angie Adams. Vice Chair: Magistrates: C. David Roberts; Janey Wigal. (Vacancy). Treasurer: Family Court Judges: Connie Thomas. New Alvin Engelke. Members Haven; Rebecca Cornett, Cottageville. Central District: (Vacancies). Southwest District: Alvin Engelke; Richard Boice; Angie Adams. Northeast District: (Vacancies). SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 943

COUNTY OFFICIALS WOOD (Post office address Parkersburg, Formed in 1798 from Harrison County and unless otherwise indicated) named in honor of , governor of Circuit Court (4th Judicial District) Virginia (1796-1799). Judges: Robert A. Waters, (R); Jeffrey B. Reed, Blennerhassett Island, in the near (R); J.D. Beane, (D). Terms of Circuit Court: Parkersburg, is well known because of Harmon Second Monday in Blennerhassett’s participation in Aaron Burr’s January, May, and September. Circuit Clerk: conspiracy. Carole Jones, (R). Court Reporters: Cindy Sutphin; Lynde Baker Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Stacy Harlow. General Receiver: nylon, shovels, tools, plastic, glass, glassware, William Crichton IV. Chief Probation Officer: pharmaceuticals, porcelain, electrical equipment, Jeff Nuckolls. Probation Officers: oil field equipment, steel and metal products, Katherine Trippel; Michelle petroleum; dairying, poultry, livestock, fruit, hay Buckley, Joe Powell, Sherry Hall and Casey and grain. Kuhn. Magistrates: Robin Waters; Joyce Purkey; Wood County Commission Brenda Marshall; Joe Kuhl. Family Court Judges: 1 Court Square Brian Dempster, (D), Parkersburg, WV, 26101 Williamstown; C. Darren Tallman, (R). Phone: (304) 424-1984 Fax: (304) 424-0194 COUNTY OFFICERS www.woodcountywv.com Assessor: Rich Shaffer, (R). Board of Education: Municipalities: North Hills, Parkersburg, Vienna, Peggy Smith; Jim Asbury; Williamstown. Tim Yeater; John Marlow; Lawrence County Seat: Parkersburg. Hasbargan. County Clerk: Magisterial Districts (3): A, B, C. Mark Rhodes, (D). County Commission: Committee Districts: Clay District 1, Clay Stephen Gainer, District 2, Harris District, Lubeck District 1, president (R); David Blair Couch (R), Robert Lubeck District 2, Parkersburg District-at-Large, Tebay (R). Terms of Court: Walker District, Williams District 1, Vienna First Thursday in January, Second Ward, Parkersburg City (9 Districts), April, July, and October. Prosecuting Attorney: Union District. Jason Wharton, (R). Sheriff: Tax Districts (14): Clay, Harris, Lubeck, K. D. Merritt, (R). Surveyor: Parkersburg, Parkersburg City, Slate, Steele, Scott Stewart, (R). Fiduciary Commissioners: Tygart, Union, Vienna, Walker, Williams, Ernest M. Douglass, Williamstown, North Hills. (R); Justin Hardman, (R); R. Vance Golden, Voting Precincts: 69. III, (D); Gerald W. Townsend, (D). Coroner: Area: 377.82 square miles. Mike St. Clair. County Superintendent of Schools: Population (2010 Census): 86,956. John Flint. Extension Agent: Jodi L. Smith. Secretary: Risha Bradford. President, Farm Bureau: Dave Lawson. Community Educational Outreach Service President: Jorie Kennedy. Health Officer: David Avery, M.D. Executive Director: Dr. Drema Mace. Board of Health: David Blair Couch; David McClue. Sanitarians: Elizabeth Green; Joe Faller; John Dennis; Charles Mapes; Linda Smithson; Will Helmick; Angela Linville; Nicole Needs. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Rusty Roten. 944 WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Officers Chair: Jane Burdette. Chair: Rob Cornelius. Executive Director: Jean Grapes. Vice Chair: Lewis Rexroad. First Vice Chair: Karen Campbell. Associate Chair: (Vacancy). Secretary: Kay Dunn. Secretary: Richard Shaffer. Treasurer: Charlie Meyers. Treasurer: Virginia Miller. Democratic Women Representative: Carol J. Parliamentarian: K. Robert Buchanan. Sams. Members Members District A-1: Vacancy (2). District A-1: Vacancy (2). District A-2: Vacancy (2). District A-2: Walt Auvil, Vacancy (1). District A-3: Sharon Smith, Vacancy (1). District A-3: Daryl Cobranchi, Vacancy (1). District A-4: Vacancy (2). District A-4: Brenda Brum, Vacancy (1). District A-5: Rob Cornelius, Vacancy (1). District A-5: Judith Stephens, Vacancy (1). District A-6: Vacancy (2). District A-6: Jane Burdette, Vacancy (1). District A-7: Barbara Fish, Allen S. Ross. District A-7: Vacancy (2). District A-8: Gladys Lemley, Vacancy (1). District A-8: Debra (Debbie) Hendershot, District B-1: Barbara D. Smith, Robert W. Vacancy (1). Smith. District B-1: Vacancy (2). District B-2: Roger Conley, Vacancy (1). District B-2: Vacancy (2). District B-3: Greg Smith, Vacancy (1). District B-3: George Campbell, Nancy District B-4: Lenny Rabatin, Linda Rabatin. Stephens. District B-5: Vacancy (2). District B-4: Linda Meyers, Charles Meyers. District B-6: Rocky Peck, Betty Boot. District B-5: Gary Thompson, Vacancy (1). District B-7: Vacancy (2). District B-6: Cathy Stump, Gene Stump. District B-8: Paul Bibbee, Dorothy Bibbee. District B-7: Vacancy (2). District C-1: Vacancy (2). District B-8: Vacancy (2). District C-2: Earl Lucas, Joan Lucas. District C-1: Sandy Cowan, Vacancy (1). District C-3: Vacancy (2). District C-2: Darlene Kiger, Joe Kiger. District C-4: Vacancy (2). District C-3: Neva Bock, Vacancy (1). District C-5: Vacancy (2). District C-4: Jean Grapes, Don Griffith. District C-6: Vacancy (2). District C-5: Vacancy (2). District C-7: Lewis Rexroad, Vacancy (1). District C-6: Vacancy (2). District C-8: Vacancy (2). District C-7: Dolores Townsend, Charles Cooper. District C-8: Wayne Dunn, Kay Dunn. SECTION 9 - COUNTIES 945

Blackwell, Mullens. WYOMING Emergency Services Director: Created in 1850 from Logan County and named M. Dean for the Delaware Indian word meaning “large Meadows, (D), Matheny. Community Educational Outreach Service plains”. President: Deanna Cook, Oceana. Board of Health: Leading industries and chief agricultural products: Carol Morgan, Lynco; David coal, natural gas, lumber; livestock, poultry, hay Stover, Mullens; Debra K. Cook, Kopperston; and grain. Kevin Kissell, Pineville; Mike McCoy, Pineville. Health Officer: Municipalities: Mullens, Oceana, Pineville. Samuel A. Muscari, Jr. Sanitarian: County Seat: Pineville. Fred Cox. Road Maintenance Superintendent: Magisterial Districts (3): No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. David Cox. Voting Precincts: 27. Area: 507.30 square miles. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY Population (2010 Census): 23,796. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers COUNTY OFFICIALS Chair: David Thompson. Vice Chair: (Post office address Pineville, Terry Runion, Mullens. Secretary: unless otherwise indicated) Frances Armstrong, Glen Rogers. Circuit Court (27th Judicial Circuit) Treasurer: Kay Lambert. Members Judge: Warren R. McGraw, (D). District 1: Terms of Circuit Court: First Monday in Terry Runion; Francis Lee February, May, and October. Armstrong; Jason Mullins. District 2: Circuit Clerk: David Stover, (R). Allan Stiltner, Brenton; Kay Court Reporter: Karen Stollings. Lambert; David G. Thompson; Linda Goode General Receiver: (Vacancy). Phillips. District 3: Probation Officers: Alan Lambert, Mullens; Shari Cook, Oceana; Clisty Hill, Debbie Wiles; Teresa Willard. Oceana; D. Michael Goode; Michael E. Cook. Mental Hygiene Commissioners: Robert Browning, Jr.; Charles B. Mullins, II. REPUBLICAN COUNTY Magistrates: James R. Boles; Craig Cook; Kay EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Fulford. Officers Family Court Judges: Louise Staton, Mullens; Chair: H. Suzanne McGraw, Beckley; K. Bruce Epp Cline. Vice Chair: Lazenby, Beckley. (Vacancy). Secretary: Gloria Cline. Treasurer: Brian Sneed. COUNTY OFFICERS Members District 1: Assessor: Michael E. Cook, (D). Brian Sneed. District 2: Board of Education: Michael Prichard, Sue Cline, Billy Joe Cooper, Richard president, Glen Fork; Robbie Bailey IV, Butcher. District 3: Pineville; Alan Stiltner, Baileysville; Mike Jeannette Belcher, Gloria Cline, Tony Davis, Mullens; Doug Lester, Oceana. Paynter, Epp Cline. County Clerk: D. Michael Goode, (D). County Commission: Jason Mullins, (D), Mullens; Larry Mathis, (D), Oceana; Silas Mullins, Jr., (D), Wyoming. Terms of Court: First and third Wednesday in each month. Prosecuting Attorney: Michael Cochrane, (D). Sheriff:Randall Aliff, (D). Fiduciary Commissioners: M. Dean Meadows, (D), Matheny; (Vacancy). Medical Examiner: Scott Daniels, Mullens. County Superintendent of Schools: Frank