By TINA ALVEY
The Register-Herald
SANDSTONE, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice has been presented with the names of three possible candidates for appointment to fill the unexpired term of former state Sen. Ron Miller.
Meeting Tuesday evening at the Green Sulphur Springs firehouse in Sandstone, the 10th Senate District Democratic Executive Committee voted to forward the names of Stephen Baldwin, Matthew Detch and Margaret Staggers to the governor for consideration, according to Chairman Gibbs Kinderman.
Baldwin, of Ronceverte, is midway through his first term in the West Virginia House of Delegates, having been elected in 2016. He previously served on the Greenbrier County Board of Education is the pastor at Ronceverte Presbyterian Church.
Staggers, former member of the House of Delegates, resides in Fayette County. She is a graduate of the WVU School of Medicine, is board certified in family and emergency medicine and has been a paramedic since 1985.
Justice may choose to appoint one of the committee’s nominees or another Democrat from Greenbrier, Fayette or Summers County to complete Miller’s term. Monroe County, which is also in the 10th District, currently has a sitting senator — Kenny Mann of Ballard — and, therefore, no one from that county is eligible for this appointment.
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