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Carte Goodwin
Partner-in-Charge , Frost Brown Todd LLP ; Vice Chair , West Virginia Bar Appellate Committee
ARIANNA WHITEHAIR
Photo by Frost Brown Todd LLP .
ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR NEW WAYS to step outside of his comfort zone , Carte Goodwin — current chair of the West Virginia Bar Appellate Committee and partner-in-charge for Frost Brown Todd LLP — never backs down from a challenge . Hailing from the small community of Mount Alto , WV , Goodwin learned many valuable life lessons from his upbringing that he still uses today .
“ It really was a community in the truest sense of the word , filled with people that were , and remain , invested in their neighbors ,” he says . “ It was an idyllic , small-town experience that had a profound and lasting impact on me .”
While his childhood dream was to coach the West Virginia University men ’ s basketball team , Goodwin ’ s family roots were firmly planted in the field of law .
“ Growing up with large extended family where dinner table conversations would frequently turn into spirited debates about law , politics and public service , those conversations rubbed off on me as I got older ,” he says .
His mother a music teacher and choir director and his father the owner of his family ’ s law office , Goodwin
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