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David C. Hardesty Jr. Director age 60 joined the Board in October 2005. He currently serves as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance and Finance Committees. Mr. Hardesty has been President of West Virginia University (WVU) since 1995. In addition Mr. Hardesty serves as the permanent chair of WVU's affiliated research corporation teaching hospital and the hospital's parent health care system of hospitals. Mr. Hardesty is also a tenured law professor at the WVU College of Law and a member of the American Bar Association the West Virginia State Bar and State Bar Association and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Prior to his career in academia Mr. Hardesty was an associate and partner in the law firm of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love in Charleston West Virginia where he specialized in state and local taxation corporate and banking law and administrative law. He was appointed by the Governor of West Virginia as the State Tax Commissioner and served for three years from 1977 to 1980. He has served in the past on the West Virginia Energy Task Force and the West Virginia Science and Technology Council and was a chair of the West Virginia Tax Study Commission. He currently serves on the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board as well as various other boards and committees. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from West Virginia University. Mr. Hardesty was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he earned his master of arts degree in philosophy politics and economics. Mr. Hardesty graduated from Harvard Law School with a J.D. (doctor of laws) degree. | 