By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Patrick Morrisey has appointed his policy director’s college-student daughter, and political operatives linked to six-digit-plus spending to support his gubernatorial campaign, to a commission that plays a signicant role in lling state judicial vacancies — with a vacancy looming on the state’s highest court.
One of Morrisey’s three appointments to the state Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission made late last month is Gwyneth Capehart of Putnam County, a rising senior at Marshall University.
Capehart is a daughter of Curtis Capehart, policy director in the Governor’s Office under Morrisey and a previous deputy attorney general in the Attorney General’s Office for nearly seven years while Morrisey led that office as attorney general.
