Cynthia L. Wilson

“This mid-sized firm is known to field a diverse set of attorneys who offer a full-service approach.”

- Chambers and Partners USA

Profile

Cynthia L. Wilson is an attorney in the Charleston office of Kay Casto & Chaney PLLC. Ms. Wilson’s extensive career with the West Virginia Public Service Commission provides clients with unparalleled experience in the areas of utility law, energy and natural resources law, and government relations.

During more than 25 years at the PSC, she provided legal advice in all areas of Commission jurisdiction — water, sewer, natural gas, electric, motor carrier safety, telephone, cable television, solid waste collection, landfills, pipeline transportation, railroad safety, veterans’ markers, coal resource transportation system.

Education

J.D. University of Cincinnati

1989

Henry A. Morrill Prize for Constitutional Law. Lawrence Maxwell Prize for Appellate Advocacy.

Marshall University	1981
B.A., summa cum laude

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Practice Areas

Commercial
- Administrative/Regulatory Law
- Communications Law
- Transportation Law
- Utilities Law
Government
- Administrative/Regulatory Law
- Energy Regulatory Law
- Municipal Law
- Transportation Law
- Utilities Law

Experience

Kay Casto & Chaney, PLLC	2021-Present
Public Service Commission of West Virginia, Law Clerk to Commissioners	1995-2021
Mountaineer Gas Company, In-house Counsel	1993-1995
Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love	1989-1993

Involvement

P.E.O., a Philanthropic Educational Organization that provides scholarships, grants, awards and loans to women pursuing higher education

Former board member, Mountaineer Montessori School, Charleston

Former clerk of session and elder, First Presbyterian Church, Charleston

Leadership Charleston, Class of 1991