PGE Appoints New Board Member
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb 27, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Portland General Electric Company (PGE) today announced the appointment of a new member of its board of directors. Seattle attorney Rodney L. Brown Jr. will join the PGE board effective immediately.
"Rod Brown will bring the PGE board new insight into legal and business decisions critical to the company and our customers," said PGE Board of Directors Chair Corbin McNeill. "His 25 years of experience bringing together business and environmental interests to find workable solutions will be invaluable."
Brown is a founding partner of Cascadia Law Group PLLC, a Seattle law firm, and has practiced environmental law in Seattle since 1982. Active in Washington state environmental affairs, Brown was the principal author in 1989 of Washington's Superfund cleanup law, the Model Toxics Control Act (Initiative 97). He serves on the boards of directors of the Washington Environmental Council and the Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center. He also serves on the Washington Department of Ecology's Regulatory Performance Advisory Group.
"We look forward to working with Rod," said Peggy Y. Fowler, CEO and president of PGE. "PGE plays an important role in Oregon's economy and its environment, and his perspective will enhance our ability to do that effectively."
Brown joins the nine current members of the PGE board: John W. Ballantine, David A. Dietzler, Peggy Y. Fowler, Mark B. Ganz, Corbin McNeill (chairman), Neil J. Nelson, M. Lee Pelton, Maria M. Pope and Robert T.F. Reid. Their biographies are available at www.PortlandGeneral.com.
About Portland General Electric Company
Portland General Electric, headquartered in Portland, Ore., is a fully integrated electric utility that serves more than 793,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Oregon. Visit our Web site at www.PortlandGeneral.com.
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Source: Portland General Electric Company
SOURCE: Portland General Electric Company
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