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  <title><![CDATA[Senate Confirms Brown Appointment to TVA]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>On September
 16, the U.S. Senate&nbsp;confirmed Marilyn A. Brown to the Tennessee Valley 
Authority Board of Directors.&nbsp; Brown,&nbsp;a professor of energy policy in 
the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public 
Policy, was&nbsp;nominated December 10, 2009, by President Obama for a term 
expiring May 18, 2012.&nbsp; She succeeds Susan Richardson Williams, whose 
term expired.&nbsp;</p><p>Brown has been on the faculty at Georgia Tech since
 2006.&nbsp; Previous to that she had a&nbsp;distinguished career at the U.S. 
Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, she led 
several national scenario studies of climate change technology and 
policy options and held various leadership positions. Her current 
research addresses the development and deployment of sustainable energy 
technologies, the design of policy options to reduce carbon dioxide 
emissions and the evaluation of energy programs and policies . At 
Georgia Tech, her <a href="../faculty/mbrown/viewlist.php?id=1">research projects</a>
 have included an assessment of the $3 billion/year multi-agency R&amp;D
 portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, 
analysis of the geography of metropolitan carbon footprints, development
 of a national climate change technology deployment strategy, and an 
assessment of the cost and availability of supply- and demand-side 
electricity resources in the Southeast.&nbsp;</p><p>The senate also confirmed
 to the TVA board, Barbara S. Haskew, a professor of economics at Middle
 Tennessee State University,&nbsp;Neil G. McBride, a long-time 
public-interest lawyer, Bill Sansom, a former chairman of the TVA Board 
and president and chief executive officer of Knoxville-based H.T. 
Hackney Company.&nbsp; The four join current members of the board: Current 
members of the TVA Board of Directors are Chairman Dennis Bottorff of 
Nashville, Tenn.; Mike Duncan of Inez, Ky.; Tom Gilliland, of 
Blairsville, Ga.; William Graves of Memphis, Tenn., and Howard 
Thrailkill of Huntsville, Ala.</p>]]></body>
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the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public 
Policy, was&nbsp;nominated December 10, 2009, by President Obama for a term 
expiring May 18, 2012</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></value>
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