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The Honorable R. MICHAEL REED Chief Administrative Law Judge West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals - Gubernatorial Appointment, for a six-year term, confirmed by the WV State Senate in March, 2003; the first Chief Administrative Law Judge of the then new West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals
- B.S., Business Administration/Accounting, Morris Harvey College (Charleston, West Virginia, now the University of Charleston), 1972. Summa Cum Laude, 1st in entire graduating class
- J.D., West Virginia University, College of Law, 1975. Top 1/5 of class
- Co-author, with Justice Thomas E. McHugh of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, of a law review article entitled, "The Due Process Clause and the Commerce Clause: Two New and Easy Tests for Nexus in Tax Cases," 90 W. Va. L. Rev. 31 (1987), which Westlaw selected for publication as a leading discussion of the subject
- Speaker at West Virginia Tax Institute annual meetings, 1999-2006, on recent West Virginia state tax administrative decisions
- Married (wife--Barbara); 2 young-adult sons
His Honor GEORGE V. PIPER - B.A., History/Geology, Furman University, 1969
- J.D., West Virginia University, College of Law, 1972
- Staff Attorney, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, 1972 - 1974
- Hearing Analyst, Office of Hearings and Appeals, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, 1974-1975
- Hearing Examiner, Office of Hearings and Appeals, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, 1975-1979
- Deputy Director and Legal Counsel, Business Tax Division, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, 1979-1983
- Special Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of the Interior (Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), 1983-1986
- Counsel to the Commissioner, West Virginia Department of Energy, 1986-1992
- Environmental Attorney, Martin & Seibert, L.C., Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1992-1998
- Solo Practice of Law, Charleston, West Virginia, 1998-1999
- Administrative Law Judge, Office of Hearings and Appeals, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, 1999-2003
- Administrative Law Judge, West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals, 2003-Present
His Honor ROBERT W. KIEFER, JR. - B.A., Political Science, West Virginia University, 1978
- J.D., Emory University, 1981
- Staff Attorney, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, Inheritance Tax Division, 1981-1983
- Staff Attorney, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner’s Office, Legal Division, 1983-1985
- Associate, Hamb & Poffenbarger, Attorneys at Law, Charleston, West Virginia, 1988-1995
- Law Clerk, Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, 1985-1988, 1995-2003
- Administrative Law Judge, West Virginia Office of Tax Appeals, 2003-Present
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