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Secretary of State Natalie Tennant speaks at ALMBS

Secretary of State Natalie Tennant
Secretary of State Natalie Tennant

Natalie E. Tennant was sworn in as West Virginia’s 29th Secretary of State on January 19, 2009. Since taking office, Secretary Tennant has focused on initiatives to create an open and engaging government for our citizens, maintaining fair and honest elections and implementing efficient technologies to better serve the businesses and agencies of our state.

Secretary Tennant attended West Virginia University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and master’s degree in Corporate & Organizational Communication. While at WVU, Tennant was selected as the first female Mountaineer mascot.

Following the completion of her undergraduate degree Tennant started her broadcasting career working at television stations in Clarksburg and Charleston where she reported the news for more than ten years. Prior to being elected, Tennant was co-owner of Wells Media Group LLC, a Charleston based video production and media training company she operated with husband Erik Wells.

Secretary Tennant is dedicated to using a practical and common sense approach in fulfilling her duties as the Secretary of State. It is her principle belief that being an elected official allows for her to be a servant to the people of West Virginia.

Secretary Tennant is very active with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).  She is currently Co-Chair of the International Relations Committee and only days upon entering office presented and was awarded a bid to host the 2011 NASS Summer Conference.  Tennant represented West Virginia while traveling with a dozen other secretaries of state in Taiwan.  She met with Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jiao along with officials from the Taiwanese Council of Agricultural and Mainland Affairs and other national leaders and business owners. Recently, Tennant was named one of only twenty-four (24) to the Aspen Institute’s Rodel Fellowship program in public service. She is the first and only West Virginian to receive the fellowship in the five years of its existence.

Along with her duties as Secretary of State, Tennant also sits on the boards of the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Secretary Tennant currently resides in Charleston with husband State Senator Erik Wells and daughter Delaney.

For further information please contact:
Ashley Parsons
aparsons@wvsos.com
304.558.6000

http://www.sos.wv.gov/

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ALMBS 2011 Journalism Staff

Full Time Staff

Position Name Cottage
General Manager Swayde Carpenter Calhoun
Newspaper Editor Devin McIlvain Braxton
Broadcast Manager Alec Salakovich Panhandle
Staff Reporters Andrew Carroll Gilmer
Alex Jones Braxton
Jesse Kidd Lewis
Tyler Moyers Barbour
Clark Palmer Gilmer
Alex Petry Kanawha
Sam Ransbottom Monongalia
Cameraman/Photographer Nick Robertson Barbour
Graphic Design Alden Roth Lewis
Xavier Nolan Panhandle
Website Coordinator Austin Shahan Kanawha

Part Time Staff

Position Name Cottage
Cottage Reporters Michael Bragg Webster/Barbour
Nick Brownstead Randolph
Robert Fulton Monroe
Seth Hamrick Kanawha
Austin Hickman Marion
Troy King Lewis
Patrick Means Braxton
Michael Roy Gilmer/Calhoun
Drew Wade Monongalia/Upshur
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Rosie the Riveters speaks at ALMBS

Rosies 2011

Mazie Mullins, from Clendenin, was a Rosie the Riveter. During World War II, she riveted bombers at Goodyear Aircraft in Akron. She actively works with Thanks! Plain and Simple and other Rosies to make the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project a model for America .

As a child she helped her family clear the land for a farm and house. As a pre-teen, she worked for .75 cents a day doing laundry for lumberjacks. As a young woman, at Goodyear, her motivation was to “bring our boys home.” Her fiancé was killed in action just before he was to come home on leave to marry her. She says of these experiences, “I am glad learned the value of hard work, early. I am blessed to have worked hard for my country to help bring our boys home safely. Unfortunately, many did not make it home. Rosies just wanted to do our best to help end that war.”

Mazie is one Rosie featured in the film, “We Pull Together: Rosie the Riveters, Then and Now” which Thanks! Plain and Simple’s has planned and managed.

Ilene Humphreys is Mazie’s daughter. She is on the Honorary Board to help work with leaders to teach about Rosie the Riveters. (Daughters of Rosie the Riveters are called, “rosebuds.)

Anne Montague is the Executive Director of Thanks! Plain and Simple, the nonprofit organization that has created the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project, so that the rest of America will model our state in finding and learning from our Rosies. She is Executive Director of the film, “We Pull Together: Rosie the Riveters, Then and Now” to premiere in Charleston the evening of June 28th at the Capital Theatre.

Tijah Bumgarner is the videographer for the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project. Originally from Fayette County, she graduated from Cal Arts in Los Angles, and she is now getting a graduate degree in film making at West Virginia State University.

http://www.thanksplainandsimple.com/
Thanks! Plain and Simple
5313 Carleton Ct (Suite F)
Charleston, WV 25313
(304) 776–4743 (Ofc)
(304) 545–9818 (Cell)

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Attorney General Darrel McGraw Speaks at ALMBS

  • Born November 8, 1936 and raised in McGraws, Wyoming County, West Virginia
  • Married to Jorea Marple, and has four children
  • Attended West Virginia University, Graduated with B.A., M.A., and J.D.
  • Awarded post-graduate Fellow/Scholar funded by the Ford Foundation
  • Served as counsel to West Virginia Governor Hulett C. Smith
  • Served as general attorney to the federal government in State Department
  • Served as counsel to West Virginia Legislature
  • Was in private practice from 1969-1976
  • Justice of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1976-1988
  • Chief Justice of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1984 and 1988
  • Elected as 35th West Virginia State Attorney General 1992-Current (Elected 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
  • Appointed to Council of State Governments by National Association of Attorneys General

http://www.wvago.gov/

Main Office
Phone: (304) 558-2021
Consumer Hotline: 1-800-368-8808
Fax: (304) 558-0140

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