Keith Burdette has been a public servant for West Virginia since the age of 23. He began by serving two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates before being elected as the youngest State Senate president in the state’s history at 34.
Bob Murray is angry, and he doesn’t mind letting you know about it. As one of the country’s most outspoken opponents of President Barack Obama’s administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he’s now turning his words into action.
Industry reigns supreme in West Virginia. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2011, the state reported 1,278 manufacturing facilities, and in 2012, total output from manufacturing was $6.2 billion. Manufacturing in West Virginia accounts for 9 percent of the total state output and employs 6.3 percent of its work force. The Mountain State…
Growing up in Lexington, KY, Millie Marshall’s dream was that she would be a professional horse trainer. When her parents asked her about college, she originally didn’t plan to go. Today, sitting as the president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc. (TMMWV) with multiple technical degrees, her dreams have shifted, but she isn’t one to shy away from change.
If you watched the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, you may know that America’s own Noelle Pikus-Pace took home the silver medal for women’s skeleton. What you may not know is that her former teammate, Lea Ann Parsley, with whom Pikus-Pace was in a devastating skeleton accident in 2005, has deep, West Virginia roots.
She was the first female CEO in the pharmaceutical industry and is currently one of only 23 female CEOs to lead Fortune 500 companies. Esquire named her one of its “Patriots of the Year” in 2011, and Fortune has ranked her among the country’s 50 most powerful women, coming in at number 37.