CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Governor Patrick Morrisey announced several new appointments Monday afternoon to various state boards and commissions.
The appointments include new members to the Parkways Authority, Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College Board of Governor’s (BOG), the State of West Virginia Athletics Commission and the Special Reclamation Fund Advisory Council.
Morrisey appointed Louis “Wade” Linger, Arthur Thomm II and Nick Fantasia to the Parkways Authority. Linger is the current President and CEO of TMC Technologies of West Virginia, based in Fairmont.
Thomm is a managing member of Thomm Partners, a government relations and public affairs firm in Charleston. Fantasia serves as president of both the Marion Regional Development Corporation and Fantasia Broadcasting Corporation.
Anna Adkins, owner and managing attorney of Adkins Law Firm, has been appointed to the Board of Governors at SWVCTC. She brings over 13 years of experience in the legal field, having worked as a paralegal, secretary-clerk for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Mingo County Family Court, and a court Appointed Special Advocate for Children in the 29th Judicial District in Virginia.
Dr. Paul Conley has been named to the State of West Virginia Athletics Commission. He currently practices at CAMC Plateau Medical Center. Conley is a graduate of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at St. Luke’s Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
John Deskins has been appointed to the Special Reclamation Fund Advisory Council. Deskins is the director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and serves as an Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at WVU.