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	Local Jurists Honored By Adam Townsend The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register May 31, 2006 http://www.theintelligencer.net/community/articles.asp?articleID=6673 The West Virginia Bar Foundation recently bestowed the honor of "fellow" upon a Marshall County Circuit Court judge, a Wheeling magistrate and a Wheeling lawyer. Judge John T. Madden of Moundsville, Magistrate James E. Seibert of Wheeling and attorney John Preston Bailey of the Wheeling law firm Bailey, Riley, Buch and Harman received the honor recently in Charleston. "These lawyers are truly leaders in their community, not only as lawyers and judges," said Thomas Tinder, executive director of the West Virginia Bar Foundation. "All of them are involved in a large array of community activities." Tinder said the bar foundation is a philanthropic sister organization to the state Bar with a 15-member board of directors from around the state. A committee on the board accepts nominations from Foundation Fellows selected in previous years and other law professionals around the state. Tinder said the nominations go through a lengthy review process before the fellowships are awarded at the annual Bar Foundation Fellows dinner. This year?s dinner was the eighth, and 17 jurists were named fellows for 2006. Tinder said there are about 145 fellows currently practicing in the state. Cheryl Riley, a member of the same firm as Bailey, is the secretary treasurer of the bar foundation. West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellows ?are those lawyers whose professional, public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and honorable service to the legal profession," she said. Riley also said the fellows come from all different locations in the state and from a variety of legal backgrounds. "They come from various areas of the state," she said. "Large firms, small firms ? the judiciary is represented. We try to get a cross section." • Madden was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates; he was a special assistant attorney general for the state; he has won the "Outstanding Judicial Service Award;? he is a member of the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; and he is on the board of directors for Reynolds Memorial Hospital. • Seibert has been a president of the Ohio County Bar Association. He has been a U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of West Virginia and a member of the U.S. Magistrate Judges Association. He has chaired the Ohio Valley Planning Commission, been a chairman at the Oglebay Institute and a member of the Wheeling Hall of Fame committee and the Oglebay Park Children?s Association. • Bailey has been the president of the West Virginia State Bar, the West Virginia State Bar Board of Governors, chairman of the West Virginia Workers? Compensation Appeals Board, vice chairman of the city of Wheeling Charter Review Board, a member of the Diocesan Sexual Abuse Review Board for the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, a member of the Order of Coif, a member of the Order of Barristers, a member of the Moot Court Board, a member of the Ohio County Bar Association, a member of the West Virginia Trial Lawyer Association and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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