LEADERSHIP

The Vision Shared Board of Directors come from different regions of West Virginia and represent almost every sector of the state’s economy, from business and labor to academia and the non-profit world. Vision Shared operations are managed by a president/chief executive officer who, in coordination with a support services provider, ensures that all aspects of Vision Shared’s administration and activities adhere to federal and state regulations and the highest standards of operation.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 
Clarence Martin

Clarence E. Martin III
Shareholder and Member
Martin & Seibert
Martinsburg

Clarence “CEM” Martin is a shareholder at Martin & Seibert in Martinsburg and is the third generation of his family to be a member of the firm.

CEM practices law in the areas of insurance coverage issues, insurance defense litigation, electric utility litigation, railroad defense litigation (FELA), products liability and asbestos defense litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He also lobbies on various issues, including insurance, litigation and civil justice reform.

CEM is qualified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, West Virginia Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits, U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania; Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia; District of Columbia and Eastern District of Virginia, The Court of Appeals for Maryland and The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

He is a former assistant counsel to the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1976-82. He was recently elected Chairman for the West Virginia State Chamber of Commerce and serves on a number of local and national professional organizations.

In addition to Vision Shared, CEM serves on the board of the Discover the REAL West Virginia Foundation and the Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority. He also is on the board for the Holy Family Hospital Foundation, which is the only hospital that provides neo-natal care in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is president of the Washington-Baltimore Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums. In 2000, CEM was invested in the Order of Malta as a Knight of Magisterial Grace. In 2003 he was elected to the Federal Associations Board of Directors. In 2004 he was invested as a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and the Constantinian Order of St. George.