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Reports & Membership Meeting

The State Fair annual membership meeting was held on Saturday, March 11, 2017 in the Underwood Youth Center at the State Fairgrounds. Click on the link below for a copy of the CEO’s report. Please feel free to contact Kelly Collins, CEO, with questions. For your convenience, you can also download a copy of the corporation’s by-laws.

The State Fair of West Virginia is a 501 © 3 nonprofit corporation governed by a board of eleven.

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(current as of March 2024, re-elected annually in March)

  • Chairman, Gary Trout
  • Vice Chairman, W. Jerry Cook
  • Secretary, Dr. Mary Ann Mann
  • Treasurer, Brad Tuckwiller
  • Dr. Jerry Clemons
  • Phoebe McGuire, Member-at-Large
  • Jo Long
  • Aaron Ambler
  • Kathryn Tuckwiller
  • Ralph ‘Chub’ Warren
  • Leslie Bicksler
  • Board/Chairman Emeritus, Dr. John Wilson
  • Board Emeritus, Gayle Mason McCroskey
  • Board Emeritus, Cliff Huffman

ADVISORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(current as of March 2021) As appointed by the Governor of the State of WV:

  • Governor (Ex Officio), James C. Justice II
  • Commissioner of Agriculture (Ex Officio), Kent Leonhardt
  • Ellen Gibson Goodwin
  • Mike Kidd
  • Jeff Vickers
  • Kara Dense
  • Brian Belcher
  • Sharon Rowe
  • Mike Stentz

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