{"id":69,"date":"2026-09-28T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/kelly-vickers-named-executive-director-of-new-river-gorge-regional-development-authority\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:16:04","slug":"kelly-vickers-named-executive-director-of-new-river-gorge-regional-development-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/kelly-vickers-named-executive-director-of-new-river-gorge-regional-development-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Vickers named executive director of New River Gorge Regional Development Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New River Gorge Regional Development Authority Board of Directors has selected Kelly Vickers as its new executive director following a special meeting Sept. 25.<br> Vickers currently serves as chief financial officer and compliance manager for the West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board. A Lincoln County native, she has nearly 20 years of public-sector executive experience in financial management, grants, compliance and board governance. She also chairs the Nicholas County Solid Waste Authority Board.<br> Summers County Commissioner Ted Kula led the committee that recruited and reviewed candidates. He said Vickers stood out during the search.<br> \u201cShe has outstanding qualifications and an inspiring leadership style,\u201d Kula said. \u201cWe are very excited to welcome her to NRGRDA.\u201d<br> Fayette County Commissioner and NRGRDA Board Chair Allison Rae Taylor presented Vickers\u2019 candidacy to the full board. Taylor said she is confident Vickers will expand the authority\u2019s programs and partnerships across its four-county region.<br> Vickers holds a master\u2019s degree in organizational leadership from Marshall University and an undergraduate degree in business administration and finance from West Virginia University. She is pursuing a second master\u2019s degree in business administration at Marshall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New River Gorge Regional Development Authority Board of Directors has selected Kelly Vickers as its new executive director following a special meeting Sept. 25. Vickers currently serves as chief financial officer and compliance manager for the West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board. A Lincoln\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjlsam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}