The West Virginia Bar Foundation has selected its 2009 Foundation Fellows. The Foundation is the philanthropic organization of the legal profession.

For ten years, the Bar Foundation has selected "lawyers whose professional, public, and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and honorable service to the legal profession, with the individuals selected reflecting the diverse nature of the legal profession in West Virginia."

This year's class of thirteen lawyers and two judges joins 151 lawyers and twenty-five judges who were previously selected as Bar Foundation Fellows. The were formally inducted at the Fellows Annual Dinner on April 30 at the Marriott Hotel in Charleston.

This year's Fellows are

- The late Supreme Court Justice Joseph Albright of Parkersburg;

- U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chambers of Huntington;

- Barbara Allen of Charleston;

- Professor Robert Bastress of Morgantown;

- Oscar Bean of Moorefield;

- Landers Bonenberger of Wheeling;

- Michael Caryl of Martinsburg;

- Linda Garrett of Summersville;

- Logan Hassig of New Martinsville;

- Harry Hatfield of Madison;

- Catherine Munster of Clarksburg;

- John Nesius of Charleston;

- Janet Preston of Parsons;

- Ancil Ramey of Charleston;

- William Redd of Huntington.