A. Michael Perry
Director

A. Michael Perry has been a key leader in the West Virginia business, education, and health communities throughout his long career. He helped guide Key Centurion Bancshares, West Virginia's first billion dollar banking organization, through a number of transitions in its growth toward becoming Banc One West Virginia Corporation, later becoming Bank One, West Virginia, NA, for which he was Chairman and CEO.

Mr. Perry graduated from Marshall University in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and also from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1961 (1st in his class and Order of the Coif).

Before joining Bank One in 1981, he was a partner with the law firm of Huddleston, Bolen, Beatty, Porter and Copen in Huntington, West Virginia and served as State Chairman of the Young Lawyers Section of the West Virginia State Bar. In 1999, he was one of the charter members recognized by the West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellows Program. He has served as Chairman of the WV Chamber of Commerce, the WV Bankers Association and the University System of West Virginia Board of Trustees and as Co-chairman of West Virginia Celebration 2000 and Advantage Valley.

Mr. Perry is very active in the Health Industry and was the first Chairman of Genesis Affiliated Health Services, Inc., a non-profit organization, which included Cabell Huntington Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital and Pleasant Valley Hospital. He served on the Board of Directors of St Marys Hospital for the past 12 years, an active Board Member of Ultimate Health Services Inc., having served as its Chairman. He serves as Co-Chairman with Senator Rockefeller for the West Virginia Children’s Health Project Mobile Medical Unit and was the first Chairman of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University.

He currently serves on the boards of Advantage Valley, Co-Chairman; Arch Coal, Inc.; Champion Industries; CORBIN, Ltd.; DARCO International; Discover the Real West Virginia Foundation; HADCO; Logan Corporation; Mission WV; Marshall University Foundation, Inc.; Marshall University Board of Governors; WV ROUNDTABLE and numerous other business, civic and charitable organizations.

His leadership and commitment have earned him such honors, as being named "Banker of the Decade" by the West Virginia Bankers Association and twice "Citizen of the Year" by the Huntington Herald Dispatch and "Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year in 1996" given by West Virginia - NSFRE National Philanthropy. Mike Perry is a "Charter Member" of Marshall University and West Virginia University Business Hall of Fame, where he and Buck Harless are the only charter members for both Universities. On June 13, 2002, Mike Perry was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation's Board of Trustees, which supports "Frontiers of Discovery-Work in Progress and Discover the Future Programs."

Mike and his wife, Henriella Perry, are co-founders of the Heritage Farm Museum and Village, which consists of more than 16 reconstructed log and other buildings dedicated to West Virginia's Appalachian Ancestors and educating others about their ingenuous and creative way of life.