Judge Kurt Hall Issues Oath of Office to 82ND ALMBS Elected Officials
Judge Hall is a native of Brunswick, Ohio. He has a bachelor’s degree (1990) in Mining Engineering Technology from Fairmont State University and worked as a project engineer/Certified Mine Foreman’s Assistant before earning a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law in 1995.
Judge Hall was elected to a new seat in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit (Lewis and Upshur Counties) in May 2016. He took office on January 1, 2017.
He was a law clerk in an Elkins law firm, a public defender in the Second Judicial Circuit (Marshall, Tyler, and Wetzel Counties) and then a Randolph County assistant prosecuting attorney. He was an assistant prosecuting attorney in Harrison County for eleven years before then-Governor Earl Ray Tomblin appointed him to the circuit bench in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit (Lewis and Upshur Counties) in 2013. He served sixteen months but was unsuccessful in retaining the seat in the 2014 election.
ALMBS 2019 State Police Announced
State Police
Christopher Martineau, Barbour
Zachary Miller, Braxton
John Kolodziej, Calhoun
Adrain Gray, Gilmer
Brandon Nicholson, Harrison
Caleb Minger, Kanawha
Noah Carson, Lewis
Devon Fletcher, Lewis
Liam Galford, Marion
Robert Coleman, Monroe
Jackson Clower, Panhandle
Ian Kelly, Panhandle
Alex Moore, Randolph
Trey Lazzell, Randolph
Jaxon Romine, Upshur
Eli Ballantyne, Webster
ALMBS 2019 Natural Resource Police Announced
Natural Resource Police
Donavan Hickman, Barbour
Garrett Littell, Braxton
Torin Martin, Calhoun
Jayvin Roush, Gilmer
Ian Fleming, Harrison
Ethan Boddy, Kanawha
Logan Ayers, Lewis
Brent Shupe, Marion
Anthony Jones, Monroe
Logan Kovach, Panhandle
John Delsignore, Panhandle
Kenneth Sibley, Jr., Randolph
Camden Barr, Upshur
2019 ALMBS Statewide General Election Results
Governor – Carson (Big Man) Winkie [F]
Secretary of State – Carson (Reese Cup) Bates [F]
Auditor – Luke (The Ocean Man) Ochsenbein [F]
Treasurer – Farris (Wheel) Fathallah [N]
Commissioner of Agriculture – Garrett (The Carrot) Davis [N]
Attorney General – Devin (The Price Is Right) Price [F]
Justice of the Supreme Court – Walker Combs
Justice of the Supreme Court – Adam (In The Court) Marquart
Justice of the Supreme Court – Billy William Tobin
Justice of the Supreme Court – Cam (The Man for the People) Bennett
Justice of the Supreme Court – Connor (The) Mann
2019 ALMBS Department of Corrections Announced
Correction Staff
John Wagner
Nathaniel Palmer
Blake Lockhart
Jasauni Sizemore
Jaden Lagos
Camden Bates
Donnie Davis
Ronnie Odell
Carter Igo
Joshua Torres
Adam Kephart
Timothy Kinder
Menis Ketchum
The American Legion Mountaineer Boys State Bar Association Members
The American Legion Mountaineer Boys State operates a fully functioning legal system and is chaired by members of the staff who, by profession, are Attorneys, Judges, and Administrative Staff Personnel within West Virginia Courts. Each American Legion Mountaineer Boys State county will prepare and present a court trial that will be reviewed and evaluated by visiting Attorneys from the Harrison County Bar Association. The ALMBS Courts hear a variety of cases that involve the American Legion Mountaineer Boys State laws. NOTE: Only 1/3 of the ALMBS Citizens are permitted to pass the Bar Exam
Last Name | First Name | Cottage | Party |
Abbas | Nazar | Barbour | N |
Iaquinta | Dylan | Barbour | N |
Kidney | Creed | Barbour | F |
Onks | Thomas | Barbour | F |
Scott | Ethan | Barbour | N |
Altizer | Benjamin | Braxton | F |
Cava | Alessandro | Braxton | N |
Jones | Shawn | Braxton | F |
Kenney | Matthew | Braxton | F |
Koon | Aidan | Braxton | F |
Littell | Garrett | Braxton | N |
Loss | Drake | Braxton | F |
Oliver | Peyton | Braxton | N |
Sibole | Griffin | Braxton | N |
Smith | Elijah | Braxton | F |
Stokley | James | Braxton | F |
Vandegrift | Ian | Braxton | N |
Webster | Ryan | Braxton | N |
Carney | Levi | Calhoun | N |
Eskridge | Wesley | Calhoun | N |
LeMaire | Zachary | Calhoun | N |
Lilly | Luke | Calhoun | F |
Mitchell | Austin | Calhoun | N |
Phillips | Garrison | Calhoun | F |
Wamsley | Colby | Calhoun | N |
Barrickman | Zachary | Gilmer | N |
Combs | Walker | Gilmer | F |
Foglesong | Robert | Gilmer | N |
Wimer | Ethan | Gilmer | N |
Adams | Gabriel | Harrison | N |
Dulaney | Kamden | Harrison | N |
Miller | Christian | Harrison | N |
Duong | Michael | Kanawha | F |
Frazier | David | Kanawha | F |
Headley | Jake | Kanawha | N |
Henly | Charles | Kanawha | N |
Henthorne | Jonah | Kanawha | N |
Keener | Mark | Kanawha | N |
Lauer | Alex | Kanawha | F |
Martin | Christopher | Kanawha | F |
Beer | Nathaniel | Lewis | N |
Dailey | Dylan | Lewis | N |
Dougherty | Carlton | Lewis | N |
George | Benjamin | Lewis | N |
Gladden | Bradly | Lewis | F |
Itobi | Donovan | Lewis | F |
Johnson | John | Lewis | N |
Kuttan | Devanand | Lewis | F |
Liu | Andrew | Lewis | F |
Minor | Thomas | Lewis | N |
Napier | Garrett | Lewis | F |
Wahl | Michael | Lewis | N |
Whited | Glenn | Lewis | F |
Blankenship | Zachary | Marion | N |
Davis | Garrett | Marion | N |
Dingeldein | Joseph | Marion | F |
Galford | Liam | Marion | F |
Gough | Bryan | Marion | N |
Harper | Jonathan | Marion | F |
Huck | Camden | Marion | F |
McAllister | Riley | Marion | F |
Pond | Ethan | Marion | N |
Staggers | Chase | Marion | N |
Tobin | William | Marion | F |
Ammons | Creed | Monroe | F |
Cale | Cameron | Monroe | F |
Chapman | William | Monroe | N |
Dear | Calvin | Monroe | F |
Krason | Samuel | Monroe | N |
Little | Gabriel | Monroe | F |
Mrozek | Matthew | Monroe | F |
Winkie | Carson | Monroe | F |
Akana | Cy | Panhandle | N |
Cloud | Trent | Panhandle | N |
Cloutier | Aiden | Panhandle | N |
DelSignore | John | Panhandle | F |
Fiest | Clayton | Panhandle | F |
Jarrell | Noah | Panhandle | F |
Kenney | Christopher | Panhandle | N |
Mackey | Gage | Panhandle | F |
Marquart | Adam | Panhandle | F |
Simpson | Andwele | Panhandle | F |
Siva | Kowsik | Panhandle | F |
Swalm | Thomas | Panhandle | F |
Tennant | John | Panhandle | N |
Bennett | Cameron | Randolph | F |
Brown | Andrew | Randolph | N |
Cummings | Garret | Randolph | N |
Gwynn | Alecx | Randolph | F |
Helmick | Orion | Randolph | F |
Igo | Carter | Randolph | F |
Kester | George | Randolph | F |
LaFaber | Eric | Randolph | F |
Lazzell | Trey | Randolph | F |
Longerbeam | Ryan | Randolph | N |
Mann | Connor | Randolph | F |
Meredith | Clayton | Randolph | N |
Moore | Alex | Randolph | F |
Offutt | Michael | Randolph | F |
Potts | Samuel | Randolph | F |
Powell | Manning | Randolph | N |
Purkey | Liam | Randolph | N |
Rush III | John | Randolph | F |
Sams | Richard | Randolph | N |
Stanley | Andrew | Randolph | F |
Struthers | George | Randolph | N |
Ayers | Braedon | Upshur | F |
Groves II | Stephen | Upshur | F |
Miller | Evan | Upshur | N |
Price | Devin | Upshur | F |
Whyte | Christopher | Upshur | N |
Coop-Gonzalez | Elias | Webster | F |
Ellis | Matthew | Webster | N |
Parsons | Ryan | Webster | N |
Robertson | Christopher | Webster | F |
2019 ALMBS Newspaper Staff Announced
Editor
Garrett Cummings
Layout Editor
Creed Kidney
Reporters
Owen Hayes
Connor Forth
Samuel Krason
Photographers:
Aaron Boggs
Charles Perdue
Alexander Masters
Richard Rogers
Sports Writer:
Zachary Roush
Graphic Design:
John Bober
General Manager:
John Bober
Part Time Reports
Thomas Onks
Hunter Bays
Levi Carney
Logan Jackson
Alex Carr
Griffen Westerfeld
Trent George
Julian Brady
Braedon Ayers
Brendan Smith
2019 ALMBS Broadcast Journalism Staff Announced
Producer
Elijah Smith
Video Editors
Jonathan Golden
Khori Miles
Antony Dong
Reporters / Camera / Anchors
Jake Comer
Benjamin George
Brian Henderson
Andrew Kuntz
Davis Porterfield
Isaac Stankus
2019 ALMBS Statewide Primary Election Results
Federalist
Governor – Carson (Big Man) Winkie
Secretary of State – Carson (Reese Cup) Bates
Auditor – Luke (The Ocean Man) Ochsenbein
Treasurer – (Money) Mike Duong
Commissioner of Agriculture – Sam (The Stallion) Crowder
Attorney General – Joseph (Mulletman) Dingeldein and Devin (The Price Is Right) Price [runoff scheduled for morning]
Nationalist
Governor – Alessandro Cava
Secretary of State – Zack (Sly Guy) Slie
Auditor – Dylan (Martini) Martinez
Treasurer – Farris (Wheel) Fathallah
Commissioner of Agriculture – Garrett (The Carrot) Davis
Attorney General – Jake (From State Farm) Headley
Justice of the Supreme Court
Walker Combs
Adam (In The Court) Marquart
Billy William Tobin
Cam (The Man for the People) Bennett
Connor (The) Mann