Biden nominates 4 for Tennessee Valley Authority board

NASHVILLE – President Joe Biden has nominated four people for the board of a federal utility.

The White House announced Tuesday that Biden has picked Beth Geer, Robert Klein, Kimberly Lewis and Michelle Moore for five-year terms on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s nine-member board. The positions require Senate confirmation.

Geer is the chief of staff to former Vice-President Al Gore. She serves on Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Klein is a retired line foreman for the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. He also filled roles with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Lewis is the CEO of a Huntsville, Alabama, engineering and logistics company. She became the first Black female elected board chair of the Huntsville/Madison Chamber of Commerce and the first minority owner of Alabama’s WTZT-TV TV station.

Moore, who grew up in LaGrange, Georgia, and lives in Richmond, Virginia, heads a clean energy non-profit after leading former President Barack Obama’s sustainability team.

The TVA board has two vacancies and two board members whose terms expire in May — chairman John Ryder, former Republican National Committee general counsel; and former coal company executive Kenneth Allen.

The Tennessee Valley Authority provides electricity for 10 million people in Tennessee and parts of six surrounding states.