Madison doctor and Democratic state senator Ron Stollings is one of eight recipients nationwide of the American Medical Association's 2016 Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service.
Stollings, a 1982 graduate of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, is board-certified in internal medicine and has served in the West Virginia Legislature since 2006. He represents Boone, Lincoln, Logan, and parts of Mingo and Wayne counties and currently serves on four legislative committees, including the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
Stollings previously served as chair of the Committee on Health and Human Resources and chair of the Committee on Confirmations, as well as chair of the Corridor G Regional Development Authority. He is a former member of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, past president of the West Virginia State Medical Association and past president of the Madison Rotary Club.
"I am so grateful to be able to serve my community as a physician and through public service in the state senate," Stollings said.