Yeager Airport is owned and operated by the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority and is governed by a 15-member board comprised of representatives of Kanawha, Putnam, Lincoln, Boone and Nicholas Counties and the City of Charleston.
Board Members of the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority
R. Edison Hill, Chairperson, representative of the Kanawha County Commission
Norman Shumate III, Vice-Chairperson, representative of the City of Charleston
H.B. Wehrle, Secretary, representative of the Kanawha County Commission
Priscilla Haden,Vice-Secretary, representative of the Kanawha County Commission
Representing the City of Charleston
Dr. Lewis Whaley
Trip Shumate
Representing the Putnam County Commission
Lt. Col. James Dodrill (Ret.)
Representing the Nicholas County Commission
Rodney LeRose
Representing the Boone County Commission
Archie Hubbard
Representing the Lincoln County Commission
Allen Holder
Representing the Kanawha County Commission
Maj. Gen. Allen Tackett (Ret.)
Commissioner Ben Salango
Priscilla M. Haden
Andrew Jordon
H.B. Wehrle, III
Todd Goldman
Mara Boggs
Representing Governor Jim Justice
Brian Abraham
Ex-Officio
Col William Peters (Ret.)
Board Member Emeritus
Henry C. Shores
Airport Management
Nick Keller, Airport Director & CEO
Dominique Ranieri, Esq., Assistant Airport Director & COO
Maggie Leaptrot, Director of Finance & Administration & CFO
Russ Kennedy, Operations Manager
Eric Johnson, Chief of Police
Kevin Price, Chief Development Officer
Paige Withrow, Marketing Manager
Barbara K. Matthey, Executive Secretary
Mindy Shaffer, Executive Assistant
Josh Potter, Comptroller
Andrea Gritt, Capital Jet Center Manager
Rachel Urbanski, Public Affairs Specialist
Shayla White, HR Specialist
Upcoming Meetings of the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority Board of Members:
Combined November/ December 2020: Wednesday, December 2nd Amended Public Notice and Agenda December 2020
January 2021: Wednesday the 27th Public Notice and Agenda
February 2021: Wednesday the 24th Amended Public Noice and Agenda
March 2021: Wednesday the 24th Public Notice and Agenda
April 2021: Wednesday the 28th Public Notice and Agenda
May 2021: Wednesday the 26th Public Notice and Revised Agenda
June 2021: Wednesday the 23rd Public Notice and Agenda
July 2021: Wednesday the 28th Public Notice and Agenda
August 2021: Wednesday the 25th Amended Public Notice and Agenda
September 2021: Wednesday the 22nd Public Notice and Agenda
October 2021: Wednesday the 27th Public Notice and Agenda
December 2021: Wednesday the 27th Public Notice and Agenda
All Meetings Take Place on the Second Floor of the Terminal Building in the Director’s Public Use Conference Room at Noon
Other Meeting Notices (past and present)
- Special Meeting of the Board of Members – November 2021
- Construction Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – October 2021
- Construction Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – August 2021
- Rules and Regulations Public Notice and Agenda – August 2021
- Finance Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – July 2021
- Marketing Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – July 2021
- Resolution Committee Public Notice and Agenda – June 2021
- Construction & Finance Public Notice and Agenda – June 2021
- Finance Committee Public Notice and Agenda – May 2021
- Special Meeting of the Board of Members – May 2021
- Construction Committee Public Notice and Agenda – April 2021
- General Aviation Committee Public Notice and Agenda – March 2021
- Marketing Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – March 2021
- Resolution Committee Public Notice and Agenda – February 2021
- Ad Hoc General Aviation Committee Public Notice and Agenda – February 2021
- Finance Committee Public Notice and Agenda – January 2021
- Construction Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – January 2021
- Special Meeting of the Board of Members – October 2021