Keith Burdette (born April 27, 1955)[1] was the Secretary of Commerce for the state of West Virginia under the administration of Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
[3] Keith Burdette led efforts to reform the state's ethics laws; overhaul education funding and the Public Insurance Program.
Working with Governor Caperton, he led the Senate through a series of financial reforms that rescued the state from near bankruptcy.
In 1992, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized his leadership by naming him one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans for the year.
Burdette directed a legislative agenda that saw major reforms to the medical liability; workers compensation; and coal hauling laws.