AT&T Announces Preliminary Results of 2008 Annual Meeting.14 Current Board Members Re-Elected for One-Year Terms SAN ANTONIO -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T) has announced that, at the 24th annual meeting of stockholders, 14 current board members were re-elected to the company's board of directors for one-year terms. The board members are: * Randall L. Stephenson Randall L. Stephenson is chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc., replacing Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. on June 3, 2007. He was born on April 22, 1960, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. * William F. Aldinger III * Gilbert F. Amelio * Reuben V. Anderson * James H. Blanchard * August A. Busch III * James P. Kelly * Jon C. Madonna Jon C. Madonna, retired, was most recently chairman and chief executive officer of KPMG (a professional services firm), in New York City. He was with KPMG for 28 years, where he held numerous senior leadership positions throughout his career, including chairman from 1990 to 1996. * Lynn M. Martin Lynn M. Martin is a former Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University from 1993 until 1999 and Chair of the Council for the Advancement of Women and Advisor to the firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP for Deloitte's internal human resources and minority * John B. McCoy John B. McCoy was Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of BANK ONE CORPORATION (commercial and consumer bank) until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, BANC ONE CORPORATION, from 1987 to * Mary S. Metz * Joyce M. Roche Joyce M. Roché is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Incorporated. Work with Girls Incorporated Roche is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Incorporated (a national nonprofit research, education, and advocacy organization), New York, * Laura D'Andrea Tyson * Patricia P. Upton Patricia P. Upton, age 66, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aromatique, Inc. (manufacturer and wholesaler of decorative fragrances), Heber Springs, Arkansas, and has served in this capacity since 1982. Ms. Upton has been a Director of AT&T Inc. since June 1993. Each board member won at least 96.6 percent of the shares voted. Two board members -- Charles F. Knight Charles F. Knight is chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co., a manufacturer of electrical, electromechanical and electronic products and systems. He served as chairman of Emerson Electric from 1974 to 2004 and as chief executive officer from 1973 to 2000. and Toni Rembe -- retired today. Based on preliminary results, AT&T stockholders voted to approve the following item proposed by the board of directors: * The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol as the company's independent auditor, with 98.0 percent of shares cast in favor and 2.0 percent cast against. AT&T stockholders also voted on the following proposals from stockholders at the meeting: * A proposal recommending additional reporting of political contributions made by AT&T, which was defeated by a vote of 68.1 percent against to 31.9 percent in favor. * A proposal asking AT&T to exclude return on pension plan assets in determining performance-based compensation, which was defeated by a vote of 54.2 percent against to 45.8 percent in favor. * A proposal to amend the AT&T bylaws to require an independent lead director, which was defeated by a vote of 60.6 percent against to 39.4 percent in favor. * A proposal to modify benefits under AT&T's supplemental executive retirement plan, or SERP (1) (Search Engine Results Page) The page of results that a search engine returns. It includes links to pages that have been automatically discovered by crawlers, manually indexed by people or that are paid for by advertisers. See search engine. , which was defeated by a vote of 64.2 percent against to 35,8 percent in favor. * A proposal calling for an advisory vote by stockholders to approve compensation for named executive officers, which was defeated by a vote of 56.3 percent against to 43.7 percent in favor. When they are available, final results of voting will be posted on AT&T's Web site at www.att.com/investor.relations. About AT&T AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. (c) 2008 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. Note: This AT&T news release and other announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. For more information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom. |
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