West Virginia International 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.)
Airport Management
Dominique Ranieri, Airport Director & CEO
Russ Kennedy, Operations Manager
Eric Johnson, Chief of Police
Paige Withrow, Chief Marketing Officer
Kevin Price, Ancillary Airport Manager
Barbara K. Matthey, Executive Secretary
Mindy Shaffer, Executive Assistant
Josh Potter, Chief Financial Officer
Andrea Gritt, Capital Jet Center Manager
Shayla White, HR Specialist
Upcoming Meetings of the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority Board of Members:
January 2023:
February 2023:
March 2023:
April 2023:
May 2023:
June 2023:
July 2023:
August 2023:
September 2023:
October 2023:
December 2023:
All Meetings Take Place on the Second Floor of the Terminal Building in the Director’s Public Use Conference Room at Noon