Roger William Tompkins
A.B., West Virginia University, 1958B.A., M.A., University of Oxford, 1961
L.L.B., Yale University, 1964
After receiving his degrees with honors in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford, Roger Tompkins studied at Yale University and then returned to West Virginia to practice law with the Charleston firm of Bowles, McDavid, Graff and Love.
Like other recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship, Tompkins, a member of Beta Theta Pi social fraternity, had been president of the WVU student body and managing editor of his law review, the Yale Law Journal.
At Queen?s College, Oxford, he played tennis, rugby, and basketball, the latter against the Soviet Union.
He served as majority leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1978-82) and state Attorney General (1989-90).