Nancy K. Quinn Named a Director of Atmos Energy Corporation.

DALLAS -- Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE:ATO), one of the country's largest natural gas distribution companies, said it has named to its board of directors Nancy K. Quinn, a co-founder of Hanover Capital, LLC. Quinn's addition increases Atmos Energy's board from 11 to 12 directors.

Quinn has been a principal of Hanover Capital since 1996. The privately owned firm provides financial and strategic counsel primarily to the energy, utility and natural resources industries.

Previously, Quinn served as a limited partner and executive director of The Beacon Group, LP, working on private equity opportunities, mergers and acquisitions in the energy industry and monetization strategies for energy portfolio companies. The Beacon Group was acquired by JP Morgan Chase.

She also worked for 14 years for Kidder, Peabody & Co. and PaineWebber Incorporated after it acquired Kidder. At Kidder, she was co-head of energy and natural resources investment banking and the head of Southwest regional banking in Houston. Subsequently, she became co-head of PaineWebber's energy and natural resources group in New York.

"Nancy Quinn brings an exceptional background and understanding of the energy industries to Atmos Energy's board based on her career in investment banking and strategic consulting," said Robert W. Best, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Atmos Energy Corporation. "We are extremely pleased that she has agreed to represent our shareholders."

Quinn earned an M.B.A. degree in finance from the University of Arkansas and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University. She is a director of Endeavour International Corporation and a former director of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Company and DeepTech International. She has served in Houston as a director of the Society of Performing Arts, American Heart Association and Association for Corporate Growth. She also has been a member of the Bankers Advisory Council of the American Gas Association and elected to the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers in New York. She resides in East Hampton, N.Y.

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the largest natural gas distributors in the United States with 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 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 the natural gas distribution and pipeline operations of TXU Gas Company for $1.925 billion. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.