Bill moved to the Mountain State in 1985, and currently lives in Lewisburg, WV, with his wife, Susan Rosshirt. An avid angler, Bill has enjoyed spending time on many of the Mountain State’s exceptional rivers, including the New, Greenbrier, Gauley, Elk, Kanawha, Buckhannon, and Potomac Rivers, and countless smaller creeks and streams. A native of North Carolina, Bill received a B.A., M.B.A., and law degrees from the University of North Carolina. He served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Elizabeth V. Hallanan, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia in 1985-86, before starting to practice law in 1986. Bill is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the 3rd and 4th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Southern and Northern U.S. District Courts in West Virginia, and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.