Delegate Tom Fast (Law ’93) has been representing the 32nd District of West Virginia in the West Virginia House of Delegates since 2015. Against towering odds, Fast was elected in 2014 as the first Republican representative in Fayette County in 86 years and was reelected to a second term in 2016. Since 2015, Tom has served on multiple committees in the State House, starting in the Judicial Committee and being promoted to Chairman of the Industry and Labor Committee and Co-Chairman of the Jails and Prisons Committee. He has been proud to be a co-sponsor on a number of successful bills, including a few pro-life bills that passed despite significant opposition. His current success in office has been the result of many years of perseverance. He ran for State Senate in 1998 and State House in 2000 and 2002 without success. But, this time, he could feel things would be different. Despite the adversity that he knew running again could bring, Tom remembers it hitting him when he woke up on...