Admitted
1991, West Virginia and U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia
Law School Graduation Year
College
Oberlin College, A.B., 1987; Oxford University, B.A., honours, jurisprudence, 1990
Memberships
Kanawha County and American Bar Associations; West Virginia State Bar; Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Barrister, Judge John A. Field, Jr. American Inn of Court.
Biographical
Law Clerk, Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, 1994-1995. Law Clerk, Hon. Thomas B. Miller, Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia, 1993. Law Clerk, Hon. Thomas E. McHugh, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia, 1992. Writ Clerk, Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia, 1990-1991. Author: Bean and McGinley, West Virginia's Very Own Celotex Trilogy: A Series of Recent Opinions by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reveals that the Rumors of Rule 56's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated, 98 W.Va.L.Rev. 571 (1996). Council Member, West Virginia Law Institute, 2001—.