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Born in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1944, Lawrence (Larry) J. Tweel attended Cabell County, West Virginia public schools, graduating from Huntington High School in 1962. Mr. Tweel graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, in 1966, and received his Juris Doctorate in 1969 from the University of Kentucky College of Law in Lexington, Kentucky.
Upon graduation from UK law school, Mr. Tweel taught school in Braxton County, West Virginia Public Schools from 1969-70. Later in 1970-1972, he taught at the Athens Academy High School in Athens, Georgia, where he also served as assistant soccer coach, assistant basketball coach and head golf coach.
Mr. Tweel returned to Kentucky to work as a staff attorney for Kentucky Legal Aid in the Louisville office from 1972-1976. Then, in 1976 Mr. Tweel came back to his hometown of Huntington and joined the law firm of Greene, Ketchum, Bailey & Tweel where he currently continues to practice.
Over his 30 year legal career, Mr. Tweel has handled asbestos exposure cases; car and truck accidents; workers’ compensation claims; social security disability claims; and slip, trip and fall cases. Since 1995, Mr. Tweel has been the managing partner at Greene, Ketchum, Bailey & Tweel.
Mr. Tweel currently serves as a board member of the Marshall University Foundation, Inc.; board member of The Society of Yeager Scholars at Marshall University; member of the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia, Inc. (selects higher education’s “Professor of the Year”); member of the Marshall University Graduate School Advisory Board; and former President and current Executive Committee member of the Marshall University Big Green Scholarship Foundation. In the past, Mr. Tweel has served as a board member for Hospice of Huntington; past President of the Cabell County American Cancer Society; and former member of the West Virginia State Bar Board of Governors.
Married to the former Cheryl Rucker of Huntington since 1970, Mr. Tweel and his wife have one son, Bradley Benton Tweel, who is a 2006 graduate of Marshall University.
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