Nesselroad v. Ansel

NEELY, Justice:

This is an appeal from a circuit court order denying the petitioners a writ of mandamus to require the State Teachers Retirement System to calculate appellants’ retirement benefits in such a way as to give them credit for prior service for which they had made no contributions to the system. We affirm.

Appellee Willard M. Ansel is the Executive Secretary of the West Virginia Teachers Retirement Board, which oversees the operation of the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS). The appellants are state college and university faculty who initially elected either to participate only…