Thomas A. Heywood, Esquire
President

Tom Heywood is managing partner of the law firm Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP, and is a former Chief of Staff for the Governor of the State of West Virginia. He has significant experience in health care, corporate, finance and commercial law. He currently serves as Chairman of the firm’s Client Development Department, and Chairman of the firm’s Health Care and Government Relations Groups.

Mr. Heywood earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations, with distinction, from Stanford University in 1978, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. He earned his law degree in 1982 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor of the Harvard Law Record (1980-82) and Developments Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal (1981-82).

Mr. Heywood is a former Law Clerk of The Honorable John A. Field, Jr., Senior Judge, U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He joined the firm in 1983. From 1989 to 1990 he served as Counsel to the Honorable Gaston Caperton, Governor of West Virginia, and from 1990 to 1993 he served as Governor Caperton’s Chief of Staff. Tom returned to the firm in 1993.

During 2000, Mr. Heywood served as Chairman of the Community and Technical College Implementation Board and Co-Chairman of Celebration 2000. In 1997, Mr. Heywood was appointed by the Governor to serve as Co-Chairman of the “Yes on 1 Committee,” which successfully advocated passage of an amendment to the West Virginia Constitution which permitted the State to invest in stocks. He served as Chairman of Governor Underwood’s Transition Committee on Medicaid in 1997. In 1995, Mr. Heywood served as Chairman of the Medicaid Crisis Panel, a statewide, 13-member panel convened by Governor Caperton. The panel made recommendations for expenditure reductions and program restructuring in the West Virginia Medicaid Program, in anticipation of federal funding reductions.

Mr. Heywood remains active in civic, charitable and public education initiatives, and has been recognized by various organizations for his public service. Mr. Heywood is the 2000 recipient of the West Virginia Education Association “Margaret Baldwin Friend of Education Award” for his leadership and support of education at the state level; received the 1999 “Sam Walton Community Leadership Award” for his volunteer efforts to improve the quality of education in the Kanawha Valley; was named the 1999 “Citizen of the Year” by the National Association of Service Workers; received the 1996 “Distinguished Service Award” from the West Virginia Hospital Association; was honored in 1996 by the Kanawha County Board of Education for his work on a bond issue to construct the new Riverside High School; and received the 1995 “Friend of Education Award” from the Kanawha County Education Association.