BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — President Donald Trump will nominate people from four states to serve on the nine-member board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the White House said Thursday.
Trump will name Kenneth E. Allen of Kentucky and James R. Thompson III of Alabama for terms that expire in 2021. Allen is retired from the Armstrong Energy coal company; Thompson is a corporate billing executive with the Birmingham-based National Bank of Commerce.
The president also will nominate A.D. Frazier of Georgia and Jeffrey Smith of Tennessee for board positions that expire in 2022, according to a White House statement. Frazier is president emeritus of Georgia Oak Partners, an Atlanta-based investment and acquisition company. Smith is deputy director of operations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
TVA is the nation’s largest public utility. It provides electricity to about 9 million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
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