Santee Cooper Announces New Board Appointments
June 22, 2009
MONCKS CORNER, SC – June 22, 2009 – Following nomination by Gov. Mark Sanford and confirmation votes in May by the South Carolina State Senate, three directors have begun new terms on the Santee Cooper Board of Directors.
Director Peggy Pinnell joins the board as a new member and fills the Berkeley County seat in a term that runs until 2014. She fills a position that was vacated by Paul Campbell’s election to the state Senate. Pinnell lives in Moncks Corner and owns a State Farm Insurance agency there.
Director W. Leighton Lord III is a new director filling the Second Congressional District seat. His term runs until 2015. Lord lives in Columbia and is a lawyer with the firm of Nexsen Pruet. He replaces Director Clarence Davis, a partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a Columbia-based law firm, whose term has expired.
Director Barry Wynn begins a second term appointment to the Fourth Congressional seat. His new term will expire in 2015. He resides in Spartanburg and is president of Colonial Trust Company, an investment management and estate services firm.
“The appointments of such qualified directors, with their breadth of experience in diverse fields, will continue to lend strategic value and direction to Santee Cooper’s business. These are challenging times for the electricity industry, and the critical decisions our board makes will influence our economic prosperity and quality of life for decades to come,” said O.L. Thompson, chair of the Santee Cooper board of directors.
Santee Cooper
Santee Cooper is South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, and the state’s largest power producer, supplying electricity to more than 163,000 retail customers in Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry counties, as well as to 29 large industrial facilities, the cities of Bamberg and Georgetown, and the Charleston Air Force Base. Santee Cooper also generates the power distributed by the state’s 20 electric cooperatives to more than 700,000 customers in all 46 counties. Approximately 2 million South Carolinians receive their power directly or indirectly from Santee Cooper. The utility also provides water to 137,000 consumers in Berkeley and Dorchester counties, and the town of Santee. For more information, visit www.santeecooper.com. For information on how Santee Cooper lives green and how you can go green, visit www.SanteeCooperGreen.com.
