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The Honorable Patrick Morrisey
CHAIR OF THE AUTHORITY GOVERNOR, STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
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Hon. Todd Johnston
Governor’s Chairman Designee
Todd Johnston is a public policy professional with extensive experience working on energy, natural resource and infrastructure issues. This includes more than a decade in federal and state government where he served in leadership positions on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and as a policy and regulatory adviser at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. Todd also has worked with the mining and cement industries on policy and regulatory compliance matters. Todd has a political science degree from Hampden-Sydney College.
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| Hon. Stephen T. Rumbaugh Cabinet Secretary, WV Department of Transportation
Stephen Todd Rumbaugh P.E. resides with his family in Eastern Kanawha County where he was born and raised. He graduated from East Bank High School and received his BS in Civil Engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in WV. He has over 30 plus years of service for the West Virginia Department of Transportation – Division of Highways. His career has covered an array of positions including Construction Inspector, Designer, Area Supervisor, Staff Engineer, Regional Construction Engineer, Director of Contract Administration, and Chief Engineer of Construction. He has been involved in overseeing the largest highway program in many years and looks forward to the challenges involved in the oversight of the WVDOT as Secretary. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to assist Governor Morrisey's team with accomplishing their vision for the WVDOT.
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Hon. Arthur "Art" Thomm, II Arthur “Art" Thomm II is Managing Member of Thomm Partners, a government relations and public affairs firm based in Charleston, West Virginia, where he resides with his family. He co-founded one of the largest grassroots organizations in West Virginia and has consulted in several monumental pieces of legislation over his storied career. Art also serves on the Board of Governors for Shriners Children's Hospital in Lexington, KY, where he helps support life-changing care for children and families. Art is Managing Member of Thomm Partners, a government relations and public affairs firm based in Charleston, West Virginia, where he resides with his family. He co-founded one of the largest grassroots organizations in West Virginia and has consulted in several monumental pieces of legislation over his storied career. Art also serves on the Board of Governors for Shriners Children's Hospital in Lexington, KY, where he helps support life-changing care for children and families.
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Hon. Nick Fantasia Nick Fantasia operates a residential real estate rental and redevelopment company. He is President of the Marion Regional Development Corporation, and President of Fantasia Broadcasting Corporation. Fantasia graduated from Fairmont State University and later earned his MBA from Waynesburg University. He was elected to Fairmont City Council for 5 terms and served as Mayor of Fairmont for 10 years. Fantasia presently serves as President of the Fairmont State Alumni Association, Serves on the Mon General Foundation, among several other community boards.
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Hon. Louis "Wade" Linger Louis “Wade" Linger is the President and CEO of TMC Technologies of West Virginia located in Fairmont, West Virginia in Marion County. After serving as a computer programmer in the Air Force, Linger began working as a defense contractor for ManTech International Corp., where he wrote and maintained U.S. Navy software that tracks aircraft maintenance and parts and pilot flight hours. In 1992, Linger established ManTech's West Virginia operations in Fairmont. He has spent much of his professional career in the fields of technology and research, including a stint as the first vice president of research for the West Virginia High Technology Consortium. He later established TMC Technologies, Inc., an information technology company which had grown to over 80 employees when it was acquired in 2005. In 2010 Linger re-formed TMC Technologies. Linger holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business from St. Leo College, Florida.
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Hon. Douglas M. Epling Mr. Epling is the owner of Mountain Edge Mining, Legacy Resources and Hanover Resources which are coal mining operations. Mr. Epling was involved for many years with boxing and baseball throughout the State of West Virginia. He was Chief Engineer for Beckley Coal Mining Company for 19 years; a member of the Southern WV Boxing Hall of Fame; West Virginia State Boxing Commissioner for 9 years; a member of the WVU Tech Athletic Hall of Fame and a former Member of the Board of Visitors at WVU Tech; a member and Past Master of the Coal City Masonic Lodge #156, Royal Arch Mason and 32 degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is also a member of the Crab Orchard-MacArthur Lions Club, named a Paul Harris Fellow in the Rotary Club and a 2018 Inductee in the West Virginia Sports Legend. In addition to serving as a West Virginia Parkways Authority Board member, Mr. Epling is also Chairman of the Beckley Police Commission.
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Hon. J. Victor Flanagan, Esq.
Victor Flanagan was born in Beckley and currently resides at Flat Top Lake with his wife Lindsay and their five children. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and the West Virginia University College of Law. He is an equity member of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown and Poe PLLC which has offices in Charleston, Beckley, Morgantown and Martinsburg. He served as the firm’s Managing Member from 2002 through 2012.
Mr. Flanagan has been a member of the West Virginia Bar Association since 1989 and is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, the U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. His areas of practice include governmental liability, medical and hospital liability, trucking and civil rights litigation. He holds the highest possible peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell--AV Preeminent—in both legal ability and ethical standards.
Mr. Flanagan is past Chairman of the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce and is actively involved in the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, the Claims Litigation Management Institute, the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel, the West Virginia Trucking Association and the Oil Marketers and Grocers Association. He also served on the Board of Trustees for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare System from 2014 through 2020.
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