Charlotte Lane


Charlotte R. Lane is an American attorney and politician from the state of West Virginia. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Lane is from Pole Cat Hollow in Pleasants County, West Virginia. She moved to Charleston, West Virginia, in 1973.

Public life

Charlotte Lane served in the West Virginia House of Delegates throughout the 1990s and was later appointed to Chair the West Virginia Public Service Commission. In 1987, she served as the United States Attorney on an interim basis. In 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Lane to the United States International Trade Commission, and she served on the commission for an eight-year term.

Campaign for Congress

Lane ran for the United States House of Representatives in in the 2014 elections, but lost the Republican primary election to Tea Party candidate, Alex Mooney.
Lane was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1981.