Press Mention The Knoxville News-Sentinel April 13, 1999
SACE Quoted
Woman tapped for TVA board
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The Clinton administration nominated U.S. Department of Energy official Skila Harris to a vacant Tennessee Valley Authority board seat, making her the first woman to serve on TVA's board. Stephen Smith, executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, praised the nomination as a step toward diversity on the historically male-dominated board. Harris previously served on an Energy Department advisory board examining TVA's position during electric power deregulation.
I like the idea of breaking the white stranglehold white men have had on the board since 1933. I think diversity is appropriate.
Stephen A. Smith
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