Roger Hanshaw

West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw, elected in 2014, practices law, concentrating on environmental and technical issues in business transactions as well as regulatory compliance. He was selected as the 58th Speaker of the House in 2018.

Speaker Hanshaw earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Notre Dame and attended West Virginia University for his undergraduate and law degrees. He is one of about 250 certifiedprofessional parliamentarians in the U.S., regularly counseling government bodies and nonprofits and he has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America. He serves on the West Virginia Farm Bureau and Clay County Business Development Authority boards and volunteers for the West Virginia FFA. He and his wife have two daughters.