Biden nominates four new directors for TVA board
Appointments will diversify all-white panel, add labor and green energy supporters
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The nominees for the TVA board announced Tuesday by the White House include:
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Robert P. Klein, a lifelong resident of Chattanooga who worked at both Chattanooga Gas Co. and EPB, was formerly the Tenth District international vice president for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union, which consists of Tennessee, Arkansas, North and South Carolina. During his career, Klein has served on the executive committee and board of directors of the United Way of Chattanooga, the Tennessee Labor-Management Conference, the Tennessee Safety and Health Congress and the Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council, where is served as president for 14 years.
If he is confirmed, he would be the second Chattanoogan on the TVA board, in addition to former Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce President Bill Kilbride.
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Kimberly Caudle Lewis is chief executive of PROJECTSYZ, Inc., a Huntsville, Alabama business that provides products and services for engineering, logistics, technical services, manufacturing and international foreign military sales. Lewis has a 25-year career spanning business operations and management, technology, and federal government contracting and was the first black female elected as chair of the Huntsville / Madison Chamber of Commerce. Most recently, she also became the first minority owner of North Alabama's only locally owned broadcast television station, WTZT-TV.
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Beth Prichard Geer of Brentwood, Tennessee was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore and now serves as a member of Nashville Mayor John Cooper's Sustainability Advisory Committee. Gore was an early supporter of efforts to combat global climate change, promoting carbon reduction efforts in his 2006 film documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In the past, Geer also has served in senior roles in the Clinton-Gore White House, the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Senate.
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Michelle Moore of Richmond, Virginia is a social entrepreneur and former White House official with roots in LaGrange, Georgia, Moore currently serves as CEO of Groundswell, a nonprofit that builds community power through community solar, clean energy, and resilience programs that share power and savings with more than 4,000 families. She also previously served as a senior executive with the U.S. Green Building Council.
TVA directors are nominated by the president and must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, usually following confirmation hearings before the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Health.