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Harrison County Farm Bureau
Scholarship Available
WV Farm PAC Endorses Beth
Walker for WV Supreme Court
The Harrison County Farm Bureau is offering a
$1000 scholarship to children or grandchildren of
active members in good standing of the Harrison
County Farm Bureau.
Follwing a special meeting, West Virginia Farm
Bureau PAC has endorsed Beth Walker as a candidate
for the Supreme Court of West Virginia.
The scholarship will be awarded for the use of
accredited college or technical schools tuition costs,
books and other fees. Applicants must be enrolled or
accepted to a post-secondary school in an agricultural
field of study including but not limited to animal and
veterinary science, agricultural sciences, agricultural
economics, agricultural education, wildlife and
fisheries management, plant or soil sciences, forestry,
wood industries or related fields. Other conditions
may also apply.
The application submission deadline is May
1, 2016. To obtain an application or get more
information about this scholarship, contact David
Hill, Scholarship Committee Chairman at 304-7821977 or email [email protected]
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“This is an extremely important race for West
Virginia,” said WVFB President Charles Wilfong.
“We felt we needed to get this endorsement out now.
Beth Walker is strong on business and her views
parallel the values of Farm Bureau. She’s been
endorsed by the WV Business and Industry Council,
the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and many
other like-minded groups. We need someone with her
wisdom and sense of fairness on our Supreme Court.”
Walker, from Morgantown, is Associate General
Counsel for the West Virginia University Health
System, which is the state’s largest healthcare system
and second largest private employer. Prior to that, she
was a partner in the law firm of Bowles Rice, where
she concentrated her statewide practice on labor and
employment law for more than 20 years.
A 1987 summa cum laude graduate of Hillsdale
College, Beth earned her law degree in 1990 from
The Ohio State University. She is admitted to practice
in the U. S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fourth and Sixth Circuits, District Courts in West
Virginia and Ohio and the Supreme Court of Appeals
of West Virginia.