Exhibit 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

          KNOW  ALL MEN BY  THESE  PRESENTS,  that  each of  Weststar  Financial
Services Corporation, and the several undersigned Officers and Directors thereof
whose signatures  appear below hereby makes,  constitutes and appoints G. Gordon
Greenwood  and Randall C. Hall,  or either of them,  its and his or her true and
lawful attorneys,  with full power of substitution to execute,  deliver and file
in its or his or her  name and on its or his or her  behalf,  and in each of the
undersigned  Officer's and Director's capacity or capacities as shown below, (a)
Registration  Statement on Form SB-2 (or other appropriate form) with respect to
the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,  of not in excess
of a total  value of  $3,500,000  common  stock of Weststar  Financial  Services
Corporation, $1.00 par value per share, to be issued in connection with a public
offering by its Officers and Directors and through a Sales Agency Agreement with
Wachovia Securities, Inc., or by some other registered broker-dealer selected by
G. Gordon  Greenwood and Randall C. Hall,  all  documents in support  thereof or
supplemental  thereto  and  any  and  all  amendments,  including  any  and  all
post-effective amendments to the foregoing (hereinafter called the "Registration
Statement"),  and (b)  such  registration  statement,  petitions,  applications,
consents to service of process or other  instruments,  any and all  documents in
support  thereof  or  supplemental  thereto,  and  any  and  all  amendments  or
supplements  to the  foregoing,  as may be  necessary or advisable to qualify or
register the  securities  covered by said  Registration  Statement;  and each of
Weststar Financial  Services  Corporation and said Officers and Directors hereby
grants to said  attorneys,  or any of them,  full power and  authority to do and
perform  each and every  act and thing  whatsoever  as said  attorneys  may deem
necessary  or  advisable to carry out fully the intent of this power of attorney
to the same  extent  and with the same  effect as  Weststar  Financial  Services
Corporation  might or could do, and as each of said Officers and Directors might
or could do personally  in his or her capacity or  capacities as aforesaid,  and
each of Weststar Financial Services  Corporation and said Officers and Directors
hereby  ratifies and confirms all acts and things which said attorneys  might do
or cause to be done by virtue of this  power of  attorney  and its or his or her
signatures  as the same may be  signed  by said  attorneys  to any or all of the
following (and/or any and all amendments and supplements to any or all thereof);
such Registration  Statement filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and all  such  registration  statement,  petitions,  applications,  consents  to
service of process and other  instruments,  and all documents in support thereof
or  supplemental  thereto,  filed under such  securities  laws,  regulations and
requirements as may be applicable.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Weststar Financial Services Corporation has caused
this power of attorney to be signed on its behalf,  and each of the  undersigned
Officers and Directors in the capacity or capacities  noted has hereunto set his
or her hand on the date indicated below.

                                    WESTSTAR FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION
                                    (Registrant)


                                    By:   /s/ G. Gordon Greenwood
                                          ------------------------
                                          G. Gordon Greenwood, President and CEO

Dated:    August 15, 2000





SIGNATURE                               CAPACITY
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/s/ G. Gordon Greenwood                 President and Chief Executive Officer
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G. Gordon Greenwood

/s/ Randall C. Hall                     Executive Vice President, Secretary and
- -------------------                     Chief Financial Officer
Randall C. Hall

/s/ William E. Anderson                 Director
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William E. Anderson

/s/ Max O. Cogburn, Sr.                 Chairman and Director
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Max O. Cogburn, Sr.

/s/ M. David Cogburn, Jr.               Director
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M. David Cogburn, Jr., M.D.

/s/ Darryl J. Hart                      Director
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Darryl J. Hart

/s/ Carol L. King                       Director
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Carol L. King

/s/ Stephen L. Pignatiello              Director
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Stephen L. Pignatiello

/s/ Kent W. Salisbury. M.D.             Director
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Kent W. Salisbury, M.D.

/s/ Laura A. Webb                       Director
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Laura A. Webb

/s/ David N. Wilcox                     Director
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David N. Wilcox