Biography
Glenn L. McCullough, Jr. A highly experienced executive with proven performance in business, electric power and governmental responsibilities, Glenn L. McCullough, Jr., served as Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board, named by President George W. Bush on July 19, 2001, to a term which ended on May 18, 2005. He began serving on the TVA Board on November 19, 1999, following his nomination by President Bill Clinton and confirmation by the U.S. Senate.		T: 601-853-4160   F: 601-853-4176     Email: Glenn

TVA, America’s largest public power company, has more than 12,000 employees, 11 fossil plants, three nuclear plants, 29 hydro electric dams, five combustion turbine installations, a pumped storage hydro plant and wind and solar sites for 31,658 megawatts generation capacity. The 17,000-mile transmission system serves 62 large industries directly and 158 municipal and cooperative customers, approximately 8.5 million people. Tennessee Valley covers 80,000 square miles in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

During McCullough’s tenure, TVA has achieved record power generation, meeting record electric power demand of 29,878 megawatts on July 13, 2004; revenue from power sales exceeded $7.5 billion in 2005; a $950 million increase in power sales from 1999 to 2004; record system reliability, achieving 99.999% system reliability over the past five years; and record clean air improvements, implementing aggressive clean air plan, spending $1.7 billion from 1999-2004 on controls to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

TVA also reached record economic and community development, transforming TVA’s economic development department into a focused regional development organization, achieving record goals for capital investment, job and income growth; and record debt reduction, achieving $2 billion in long-term debt reduction from 1999-2004 and reducing interest cost as a percent of revenue by 32%.

Prior to his time with the TVA, McCullough was elected as Mayor of Tupelo, Mississippi, by 61% of the vote in June of 1997. McCullough led the successful historic downtown revitalization efforts, which included leadership of the Fairpark District project, a 50-acre downtown development. He also formed citizen task forces and community-oriented policing efforts. As a result, he received the John C. Stennis Institute of Government’s “Innovations in Municipal Government” award. Tupelo earned the “All-American City” designation from the National Civic League in 1999 while under McCullough’s lead.

From 1993-1997, McCullough was the Director of Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) in the Office of Governor Kirk Fordice. He enhanced the state’s commitment to technical skills training, physical infrastructure improvements, industrial-park development and strengthened understanding and trust between Congressional leaders and ARC. McCullough also played a key role in a five-year effort to gain support necessary for the $600 million Red Hills mine and power plant.

McCullough served as President, Vice-President and Sales Manager of Tupelo’s McCullough Steel Products, Inc., a master distributor of industrial pipe, valves, fittings and related piping materials, from 1981-1993. He was instrumental in adding more than 500 active customer accounts in 26 states. He also designed sales incentive programs for employees and increased sales by more than 300%.

McCullough currently serves on the Board of Directors of Community Bank in Amory, MS, the Mississippi Council on Economic Education, the Tupelo Symphony League, the Advisory Board of Kinetic Ventures in Washington, D.C., member of Board of Directors for Mississippi Technology Alliance, and on the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), in Palo Alto, California. He also has recently been named the chairman of Advance Mississippi and was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to Momentum Mississippi, a statewide economic development task force.

McCullough served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committees for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Alabama Partnership for Economic Development, Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce and Mississippi Council on Economic Education. In the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), he served on the Advisory Council to Secretary Spencer Abraham. McCullough also served on the Dean’s Development Council for Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University, as a Board Member of Momentum Mississippi and as Co-Chairman for the Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC).

A frequent keynote speaker, McCullough has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Energy Daily, and featured in American Executive magazine.

Honored as the 2002 Mississippi State University Alumnus of the Year, McCullough has also participated at the BellSouth Leaders of the 21st Century Conference and is a 1993 graduate of New South Economic Development Course at the University of Southern Mississippi.

McCullough earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics in 1977 from Mississippi State University.