AFT Vice President
Judy Hale has been president of AFT-West Virginia since 1991.  She also serves as president of the Putnam Federation of Teachers.  As a 22-year veteran of teaching, she has worked to professionalize teaching.  She was trained as a Mentor Teacher, a program that grew out of the 1990 education reform in West Virginia.

She is a member of the Superintendent's Advisory Senate, has chaired the Language Arts Textbook Selection Committee, represented her county in the West Virginia Teachers' Forum, and served on the Governor's Basic Skills Computer Panel.  As a result of the work of that panel, four computers are being provided to each classroom in West Virginia.  She also currently serves as a member of the WVDE Policy Revision and Consolidation Committee (Policy 2000) and the Task Force on Preparation of Educational Administrators and the Board of Directors for Highland Hospital and serves on the Governor's Labor-Management Council.  As a lobbyist for the West Virginia Federation of Teachers, she has spearheaded two campaigns that resulted in landmark legislation on inclusion and safe schools.  She is a member of the AFT Teachers program and policy council and the advisory committee on state federations.