Meet Dave

I was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina and lived there until I was 17. I moved to West Virginia to get away from "the city life" so I could hunt and fish. At 19 I met my wife and we got married and have been for the last 30 years. We have two boys that are grown up and we still live in the Kermit area today.

I started my adult life as a volunteer firefighter with the Kermit Volunteer Fire Department and the Dunlow Volunteer Fire Department starting in 1990 spanning through 2015. In 1993 I got my Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) license and in 1999 I went through school and got my Paramedic license. In November of 1999 I joined the Army as a Combat Engineer and went on to Airborne School landing at my first duty station of Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne Division where I deployed for the first time in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.  In 2005 I reenlisted to go to the 1st Armored Division in Baumholder, Germany where I deployed again in support Operation Iraqi Freedom. I continued to serve as a volunteer firefighter and practicing paramedic through my entire enlistment as I would volunteer every time I was able to come home on leave. Unfortunately, I had to be medically discharged from military service for picking up asthma while I was in Germany in 2006. Upon leaving the Army I worked for Norfolk Southern Railways as a conductor and a transportation/engineering supervisor trainee followed by being an Over the Road truck driver for the last few years. 

I can promise you that I will be an ever present commissioner. I will be in the courthouse doing my job every single day that I have been elected for. If you have a problem, no matter what it is, my door is always open and I will do everything I can to try to figure out a solution even if it has nothing to do with my job as a commissioner. If I do not know the answer, I know a lot of people that may. If they don't have an answer we have the internet. If you are unable to make it to the courthouse call me and I will come to you and we will figure something out. If it is after working hours, call me anyway. I may not be able to make it to you immediately but promise you that you will be the first person on my list when I start work the next day. I will be at every meeting, listening to every concern, from every citizen. If you have a complaint I want to hear it, especially if it concerns me, because the only way I can get better is for someone to tell me about it. I will be ready from day one to partner with the other commissioners' to begin fixing the many problems that the county faces from years of inaction and will do doing every thing I can to make our county grow. I take a great deal of pride in the fact that I have spent a lifetime of service to my community and my country and look forward to continuing to give all I have to make our county, state, and country the very best on this planet.