Charlotte Pritt

Margaret Workman became the first woman justice and the first woman elected to statewide office in West Virginia

Gaston Caperton defeated incumbent Governor Arch A. Moore Jr.

Joe Manchin was reelected to the West Virginia Senate

Margaret Workman was elected first woman on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and first woman elected to statewide office in West Virginia

Thomas Miller led the ticket in both the primary and general elections in State Supreme Court race

Ken Hechler was reelected as West Virginia's secretary of state

Darrell McGraw failed to gain reelection to the State Supreme Court

Walt Helmick elected to the House of Delegates

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was Awarded the Newbery Medal for Shiloh

Eldora Nuzum retired from the Elkins Inter-Mountain

The North Central Association approved baccalaureate degrees in business administration, elementary education, liberal studies, and psychology at Ohio Valley University

Henry Payne was runner-up for the Mencken Award

Dyke Raese was inducted into the WVU Hall of Fame

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on unfair labor practices in the Ravenswood Strike

Richard Freeland re-entered the recording business when he started Freeland Records

Otis Rice became vice president of the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation

Jay Rockefeller successfully backed the Coal Act to ensure continued funding of the UMWA health insurance

Cynthia Rylant was awarded the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction for Missing May

Fred Schaus was named to the WVU Hall of Fame

Charlotte Pritt was elected chairwoman of the Mountain Party; Jesse Johnson was again selected as candidate for governor, and Bob Henry Baber as candidate for U.S. Senator