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 S-8 (or other  appropriate form) with respect to
the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,  of the shares of
common stock Weststar Financial Services Corporation, $1.00 par value per share,
to be issued in  connection  with the  issuance of shares  upon the  exercise of
options pursuant to the Weststar Financial  Services  Corporation 2001 Incentive
Stock Option Plan and Weststar Financial Services  Corporation 2001 Nonstatutory
Stock Option Plan, 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 Chief Executive Officer


Dated:    June 18, 2002


SIGNATURE                                         CAPACITY
- ---------                                         --------

/s/ Gordon Greenwood                President, Chief Executive Officer,
- ---------------------------         and Director
G. Gordon Greenwood


/s/ Randall C. Hall                 Chief Financial Officer
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Randall C. Hall*


/s/ W. Edward Anderson              Director
- ---------------------------
W. Edward Anderson*


/s/ M. David Cogburn                Director
- ---------------------------
M. David Cogburn, M.D.*


/s/ Max O. Cogburn, Sr.             Director
- ---------------------------
Max O. Cogburn, Sr.*


/s/ Daryl J. Hart                   Director
- ---------------------------
Daryl J. Hart*


/s/ Carol L King                    Director
- ---------------------------
Carol L. King*


/s/ Stephen L. Pignatiello          Director
- ---------------------------
Stephen L. Pignatiello*

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


/s/ Laura A. Webb                   Director
- ---------------------------
Laura A. Webb*


/s/ David N. Wilcox                 Director
- ---------------------------
David N. Wilcox*