Atmos Energy Corporation Names Tom S. Hawkins Jr. as Louisiana Division President.DALLAS -- Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ATO ATO Australian Taxation Office ATO Ambito Territoriale Ottimale (Italy) ATO Alpha Tau Omega ATO Air Traffic Organization (FAA) ATO Arab Towns Organization ATO Air Tasking Order ATO Assemble To Order ), one of the country's largest natural gas utilities, said that Tom S. Hawkins Jr. has been named president of its Louisiana Division based in Baton Rouge. He succeeds Conrad E. Gruber, who recently was promoted to a new position at the company's Dallas headquarters. Hawkins, 48, had been president of Atmos Energy's Texas Division based in Lubbock since October 2000. The company said his replacement in Texas will be named soon. Hawkins joined Atmos Energy as vice president of planning and budgeting in 1997 following Atmos Energy's acquisition of United Cities Gas Company. At United Cities, he had been vice president of finance and planning. From 1978 to 1988, he had worked for Arthur Andersen & Co., where he had supervised audits and financial consulting engagements. He has served as treasurer and a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce. He also has been audit committee chairman, campaign vice chair and a board member of the Lubbock United Way and a director of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Texas Tech Lifelong Learning Community Advisory Board and the Center for Global Culture. For the past two years, he has been the corporate recruitment chair in Lubbock for the American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association, or the ADA, is an American health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of (Walk for America). Hawkins received his bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. and is a certified public accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) An accountant who has met certain standards, including experience, age, and licensing, and passed exams in a particular state. . He also has completed the University of Tennessee's Executive Development Program. Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the largest natural gas distributors in the United States, serving about 1.7 million utility customers. Atmos Energy's utility operations serve more than 1,000 small and medium-size communities in 12 states from the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge Mountains A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina. in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy's nonutility operations, organized under Atmos Energy Holdings, Inc., operate in 18 states. They provide natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers, manage company-owned natural gas storage and pipeline assets and construct small electric generating plants for industrial and municipal customers. On June 17, 2004, Atmos Energy announced a definitive agreement to acquire TXU TXU Texas Utilities (Electric and Gas Company) TXU Transmitter Unit Gas Company from TXU Corp. for $1.925 billion. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com. |
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