Pizatella, Jason C. | Spilman Thomas & Battle

Counsel

Charleston, WV

Mr. Pizatella's primary areas of practice are general corporate law, business expansion and economic development.

Education

Chief Executive Officer, Contractors Association of West Virginia, 2022-present
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, 2017
President and Chief Executive Officer, Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce, 2016
Acting Cabinet Secretary, West Virginia Department of Administration, 2014 - 2015
Acting Cabinet Secretary, West Virginia Department of Revenue, 2013
Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, 2011 - 2013
Deputy State Tax Commissioner, West Virginia Department of Revenue, 2010
Counsel, West Virginia State Senate Committee on Finance and Committee on Government Organization, 2009 - 2010

West Virginia Executive "Lawyers & Leaders," Class of 2023
Nominated by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for Government Relations Practice
Forty Under 40, The State Journal, 2017
Adjunct Faculty, West Virginia University College of Law, 2017 - present
Young Gun, West Virginia Executive Magazine, 2015
Henry Toll Fellow, National Council of State Governments, 2014
Leadership West Virginia, 2012

West Virginia State Bar
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Former Member, West Virginia Board of Law Examiners
Former Member, Consolidated Public Retirement Board (Governor's Representative)
Former Chair, Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board
Former Member, Enterprise Resource Planning Board (Governor's Representative)
Former Member, Parkways Authority (Governor's Designee and Chair)
Former Member, Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council (Governor's Designee and Chair)
Former Member, Regional Jail and Correctional Facilities Authority
Former Chair, State Personnel Board
Former Member, Capitol Building Commission

Co-Author, "Section 404 Permits, Valley Fills and In-Stream Ponds: What's Next?" Energy & Min. L. Inst. 262, 2008
Author, "Separation of Powers and the Governor's Office in West Virginia: Advocating a More Deferential Approach to the Chief Executive from the Judiciary," 109 W.Va. L. Rev. 185, 2006
Associate Editor and Executive Business Editor, West Virginia Law Review

Eucharistic Minister, Lector and Usher, Basillica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart