News Release
Contact: Barry Dillon
Phone: 770-270-7835
Email: barry.dillon@gatrans.com
Georgia Transmission Corporation Re-elects Board Officers
TUCKER, Ga. (April 5, 2006) The Georgia Transmission Corporation (GTC) Board of Directors reelected officers at its board meeting held March 27 in Atlanta. The four officers who will serve one-year terms include: chairman - Charles Fendley, chairman of the board, Amicalola EMC; vice chairman - Ray C. Jones, Jackson EMC director; secretary - Roy Tollerson, Jr., Diverse Power director; and treasurer - Steve E. Rawl, first vice president, Okefenoke Rural EMC. Each GTC officer has served in the same position since 1996. The officers will serve on GTC's 13-member board, which is composed of five electric membership cooperative (EMC) managers and six EMC directors from around the state, as well as two directors who are not affiliated with the EMCs. Georgia's EMCs are member-owned electric utilities that deliver electric service to nearly half the state's population across more than 73 percent of the state. In addition to Tollerson, three directors were reelected to GTC's board. They include Gary Drake, southeast regional manager director; Jill Tietjen, outside director; and Michael Whiteside, northwest regional manager director.
GTC is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by 39 Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs) in Georgia. The corporation owns more than $1 billion in assets, including nearly 2,700 miles of transmission lines and 580 substations across the state.
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