Herbert Hoover Shop Students Deliver First Benches to the High Court

Two Herbert Hoover High School students who have been working over the summer to build furniture for West Virginia’s new intermediate court got to deliver and install the first set of benches. Lane Ramsey and Josh Stuart, along with several Herbert Hoover faculty members, brought pieces of the benches from their shop classroom to the Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia last week. The school won the bid to produce the benches, podiums and tabletops for the main courtroom in Charleston and five satellite courtrooms. The main courtroom bench is made of walnut and the satellite courtroom benches are cherry. The students, who are being paid $15 an hour for their summer work, are also producing carved wooden ICA seals for each bench.