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
Kevin Price, Chief Development Officer
Paige Withrow, Marketing 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 26 2022: Public Notice and Agenda
February 23, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda
March 23, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda
April 27, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda
May 25, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda
June 22, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda & June Minutes
July 27, 2022: Public Notice and Agenda & July Minutes
August 2022: Wednesday the 24th Public Notice and Agenda
September 2022: Wednesday the 28th Public Notice and Agenda
October 2022: Wednesday the 26th
December 2022: Wednesday the 7th
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)
- Ad Hoc Minimum Standards Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – January 2022
- Joint Construction and Finance Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – January 2022
- Ad Hoc General Aviation Committee Meeting – April 2022
- Construction Committee Public Notice and Agenda – April 2022
- Public Notice and Agenda for the upcoming Finance Committee – May 2022
- Finance Committee Meeting Public Notice and Agenda – May 23, 2022
- Joint Finance and Construction Committee Public Notice and Agenda – June 2022
- Special Board Meeting – September 6, 2022
- Special Board Meeting – September 12, 2022