Frank P. Justice, Jr. was born in Wanego, WV in 1938 to Franklin Pierce and Jeneta Ruth (Cooley) Justice.  He graduated from W.V. State College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and from Marshall University in 1977 with a Master’s of Business Administration in Finance.   

Frank and Eva Mae Hartley were married in 1960 and have three grown sons, Kerry, Kelly and Kevin.  Frank began working as reporting manager for Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. in Charleston in 1960 and in 1968 moved to the U.S. Commerce Department.   

He was offered a position with Ashland Oil, Inc. in Ashland, Kentucky in 1970 and served in various staff positions until July 1979 when he was selected as Vice President for Public Relations.  He held this position until 1982 when he was appointed Vice President of Ashland Services Company, a division of Ashland Oil, Inc.  He was also selected as Corporate Vice President in 1978 and held this position until retiring in 1993.   

Throughout his career, Frank has been very involved in Community and Civic Activities.  He is a former chairman and life board member of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and is a former board member, chairman of the board and life member of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce.  He has been a regional chairman, board member and a member of the Executive Committee of the West Virginia Roundtable, Inc. and he is still president of the Roundtable Venture Fund, Inc.   

Frank is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Business and Finance, and Who’s Who in the South.  He has been a long term member and past vice president of the Lewis College of Business Advisory Board.  He is also a member of the John Marshall Society and the Erickson Alumni Center Society at Marshall.  He and his wife Eva established the Lowell Hartley and Frank Justice Scholarship in 1995.  They also have established a scholarship in memory of Macile Lee Hartley, his mother-in-law, at WV State College.   

After retiring from Ashland Oil, Frank wanted to get more involved in Marshall.  He began working at Marshall as the Executive Director of the Research & Economic Development Center in 1993.  In 1995 he took the position of vice president for Development and in 2002 became the Director of Major Gifts at Marshall.  He later served as a fund raising consultant for the WV Chamber of Commerce.   

Frank is now retired and lives in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina with Eva, his wife of 45 years.