Leadership
Board of Directors

Thomas A. Fanning
Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company
Atlanta, GA | Age 64
elected 2010

Janaki Akella
Digital Transformation LeaderGoogle LLC (technology)
Palo Alto, CA | Age 60
elected 2019

Juanita Powell Baranco
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Baranco Automotive Group (automobile sales)
Atlanta, GA | Age 72
elected 2006

Jon A. Boscia
Retired Founder and President Boardroom Advisors, LLC (board governance consulting firm)
Sarasota, FL | Age 68
elected 2007

Henry A. Clark III
Retired Senior Advisor, Evercore Inc. (global independent investment advisory firm)
Hobe Sound, FL | Age 71
elected 2009

Anthony F. Earley, Jr.
Retired Chairman, President and CEO PG&E Corporation (utility)
Bloomfield Hills, MI | Age 71
elected 2019

David J. Grain
CEO and Managing Director Grain Management, LLC (private equity firm)
Sarasota, FL | Age 58
elected 2012

Colette D. Honorable
Partner, Reed Smith LLP (legal)
Washington, DC | Age 51
elected 2020

Donald M. James
Retired Chairman and CEO, Vulcan Materials Company (construction materials)
Pensacola, FL | Age 72
elected 1999

John D. Johns
Retired Chairman of DLI North America Inc., the oversight company for Protective Life Insurance Corporation (insurance)
Birmingham, AL | Age 69
elected 2015

Dale E. Klein
Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, University of Texas System Retired Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (energy)
Austin, TX | Age 73
elected 2010

Ernest J. Moniz
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCEO and Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative (energy)Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
Brookline, MA | Age 76
elected 2018

William G. Smith, Jr.
Chairman, President and CEO, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. (banking)
Tallahassee, FL | Age 67
elected 2006

Steven R. Specker
Lead Independent Director, Southern Company BoardRetired CEO, TAE Technologies, Inc. (energy technology)
Scottsdale, AZ | Age 75
elected 2010

E. Jenner Wood III
Corporate Executive Vice President–Wholesale Banking, SunTrust Banks, Inc. (banking)
Atlanta, GA | Age 69
elected 2012
Management Council

Thomas A. Fanning
Chairman, President
and CEO
Fanning, 64, joined the company in 1980

Bryan Anderson
Executive Vice President and President, External Affairs
Anderson, 54, joined the company in 2010

W. Paul Bowers
Chairman and CEO,
Georgia Power
Bowers, 64, joined the company in 1979

Stanley W. Connally, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Operations, Southern Company Services, Inc.
Connally, 51, joined the company in 1989

Mark A. Crosswhite
Chairman, President and CEO, Alabama Power
Crosswhite, 58, joined the company in 2004

Christopher Cummiskey
Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial and Customer Solutions Officer
Cummiskey, 46, joined the company in 2013

Martin B. Davis
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Davis, 58, joined the company in 2015

Andrew W. Evans
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Evans, 54, has held his current role since June 2018

Kimberly S. Greene
Chairman, President
and CEO, Southern Company Gas
Greene, 54, has held her current role since June 2018

James Y. Kerr II
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer
Kerr, 57, joined the company in March 2014

Stephen E. Kuczynski
Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Nuclear
Kuczynski, 58, joined the company in July 2011

Mark S. Lantrip
Executive Vice President Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company Services, Inc.
Lantrip, 66, joined the company in 1981

Anthony L. Wilson
Chairman, President and CEO, Mississippi Power
Wilson, 57, joined the company in 1984

Christopher C. Womack
President, Georgia Power
Womack, 63, joined the company in 1988