Alphonso R. Jackson named VP of corporate resources for CSW Energy, Inc., and CSW International, Inc.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- June 13, 1996--Central and South West Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. ) said today that Alphonso R. Jackson, president and chief executive officer of The Housing Authority of the City of Dallas, has been named vice president of corporate resources for its CSW CSW Commission on the Status of Women CSW Christian Solidarity Worldwide CSW Clinical Social Worker CSW College of the Southwest (New Mexico) CSW Cambridge SoundWorks (audio manufacturer) Energy, Inc., and CSW International, Inc., subsidiaries, effective August 5. Jackson will oversee marketing intelligence, strategic planning, human resources, industry representation and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for the two subsidiaries, according to Terry D. Dennis, president and chief executive officer of CSW Energy and CSW International. CSW Energy develops, owns and operates non-utility electric power projects in the United States. CSW International participates in electric power generation, transmission and distribution projects outside the U.S. The companies are units of Dallas-based Central and South West, an electric utility holding company with assets of $14 billion. Central and South West owns four electric utility subsidiaries in the United States, a regional electricity company in the United Kingdom and non-utility subsidiaries involved in independent power production, telecommunications, energy efficiency and financial transactions. "We are exceptionally pleased that Mr. Jackson will be joining Central and South West," said E.R. Brooks, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Central and South West Corporation. "He is a very talented executive, with an international reputation and a wide range of experience in public policy matters." Jackson, 49, joined the Dallas Housing Authority in January 1989. Previously, he was director of the Department of Public and Assisted Housing in Washington, D.C., where he formulated and implemented housing policy for the $137 million operation. He also had served as chairperson for the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). Redevelopment Land Agency Board, as director of public safety for the City of St. Louis, as executive director for the St. Louis Housing Authority, as a director of consultant services for the certified public accounting firm of Laventhol and Horwath in St. Louis, and as executive assistant to the chancellor and assistant professor at the University of Missouri. He is a graduate of Northeast Missouri State University Missouri State University is a state university located in Springfield, Missouri. It is the state's second largest university in student enrollment, second only to the University of Missouri. From 1972 to 2005, Missouri State was known as Southwest Missouri State University. with a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in education administration. He received a law degree from Washington University School of Law Washington University School of Law, is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. The law school is one part of the seven graduate and undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis. in St. Louis. He serves on the board of directors of Zale-Lipshy University Hospital, Texas Commerce Bank, N.A., YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. of Metropolitan Dallas, The Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training , American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. of Metropolitan Dallas, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Institute for American Values--New York City, and Children's Medical Center of Dallas. He also serves on the board of governors of Northeast Missouri State University and as chairman of the General Services Commission of the State of Texas. Jackson is an internationally recognized expert on urban issues. He was a 1995 Fellow of the Aspen Institute. He served as a member of President Bush's National Commission on Urban Families, on the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, on the Regional Selection Panel for the White House Fellowship program and on the Welfare Simplification and Coordination Advisory Committee. Photo available upon request by calling the contact listed below. CONTACT: Central and South West Corporation Gerald R. Hunter, 214/777-1165 |
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