Former West Virginia Coal Association President and Chairman of the Board, Gary White, was chosen as one of two winners of the Lorenelle White Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s State Journal Who’s Who in West Virginia Business Awards. Gary was joined by longtime Association and industry friend, Ruth Lemmon, who is president of the West Virginia Automobile and Truck Dealer’s Association.
The awards are made each year in honor of the State Journal’s former publisher, the late-Lorenelle White.
Joining White and Lemmon in receiving honors this year were Michael Bonasso, member of Flaherty, Sensabaugh and Bonasso, LLC of Charleston; Ellen Cappellanti, deputy managing member of the Commercial Law Practice Group at Jackson Kelly, PLLC in Charleston; Frank Baer, owner of Commercial Insurance Services of South Charleston; Bob Fitzsimmons, senior partner of Fitzsimmons Law Firm of Wheeling; David McKinley, president and managing director of McKinley Carter Wealth Services in Wheeling; Andy Paterno, president of the West Virginia of Huntington Banks in Charleston; James Ramey, owner of Ramey Automotive Group in Princeton; and, Suzanne Shipley, president of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown.
Friends of Coal congratulate all the winners of this year’s awards.