Stephen G. Skinner

Stephen Skinner was born in and grew up in Charles Town, West Virginia.  He graduated from Jefferson High School in 1986, West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1990 (Honors Program) and the West Virginia University College of Law in 1994. Prior to College, he attended the West Virginia Governor's Honors Academy.  During college, studied abroad at Wroxton College in the United Kingdom before returning to West Virginia Wesleyan and becoming the Student Government President (Community Council).  Before law school, he spent a year out traveling and working, including most of the year in London where he worked for the Performing Right Society.

He began his legal career by working with his father in Charles Town from 1994 until 1999 when he moved to New York City.  In New York, Skinner represented aviation disaster and other catastrophically injured victims, including victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks.  He traveled extensively with his New York firm before he returned to West Virginia in 2004 to rejoin his father and his brother.

Mr. Skinner has handled catastrophic injury, medical negligence and products liability suits across the country. He is admitted to the bars of West Virginia, New York, the District of Columbia, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. His a member of the American Association for Justice, the District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association, the West Virginia Association for Justice, Public Justice,  and the National Crime Victim Bar Association and the Brain Injury Association of West Virginia. He is a former President of the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University and continues to serve on CATF's board.  In 2009, he was appointed to the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.

Mr. Skinner is active in civil rights advocacy on the local, state and national level.