airport administration

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
Trip Shumate, Vice-Chairperson, representative of the City of Charleston
H.B. Wehrle, Secretary, representative of the Kanawha County Commission
James Dodrill,Vice-Secretary, representative of the Putnam 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 Lance Wheeler
Lisa Pack
Andrew Jordon
H.B. Wehrle, III
Todd Goldman
Mara Boggs

Representing Governor Jim Justice

Brian Abraham

Ex-Officio

Col William Peters (Ret.)

Executive Leadership Team

Dominique Ranieri

Airport Director & CEO

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Dominique Ranieri is the Airport Director & Chief Executive Officer of West Virginia International Yeager Airport, owned and operated by the Central West Virginia Airport Authority.

Ranieri’s role and responsibilities include the day-to-day oversight of the Airport’s Executive Leadership Team and West Virginia International Yeager Airport. She oversees a staff of over 100, a $13.7 million budget for fiscal year 2022, and daily operations of the largest commercial Airport in the state of West Virginia that generated a $225-million economic impact in the state pre-COVID-19.

She has worked at CRW since 2017, starting as the Airport’s Marketing Director and working her way up to the CEO role. Her hard work has led to many additions (and schedule adjustments) to service at CRW Airport—notably, service from CRW to Orlando International Airport (MCO) on low-cost carrier, Spirit Airlines.

Before being named CEO, Ranieri served as Assistant Airport Director for nearly two years. Her appointment to her current position was made official in September 2022. She is the first woman to lead West Virginia International Yeager Airport.